MichaelHoward comments on Least Signaling Activities? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 22 May 2009 01:03:43PM 15 points [-]

Voted up, but as Adaptation-Executers (rather than Fitness-Maximizers) we can't trust whether an activity is about signalling just by whether or not it has any signalling value in our present environment.

What would a hunter-gatherer do that has no signalling value for their inclusive genetic fitness? What activities we do that come from adaptations of those hunter-gatherer activities?