gwern comments on Least Signaling Activities? - Less Wrong

27 Post author: RobinHanson 22 May 2009 02:46AM

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Comment author: gwern 23 May 2009 05:51:38PM 0 points [-]

In case you were wondering why you were being downvoted: your comment either adds little ('yes, signaling and evolutionary considerations influence sex and music to a degree unimagined by the conventional idealistic thoughts about those topics - but they still feel good!') or it doesn't take into account all the reasons we should be much more cynical about the conventional narratives such as 'We can get lost in sex and song...'