MugaSofer comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 March 2013 10:45AM

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Comment author: MugaSofer 06 March 2013 09:47:43AM 0 points [-]

Here's how I parsed it:

"You can better extrapolate from a chimp to a human, of the same gender, than from a human to another human of a different gender."

To be fair, most pop evopsych is extrapolating from imaginary details of caveman behavior rather than actual chimp behavior.