mwengler comments on On manipulating others - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mwengler 20 June 2013 01:23:34AM 0 points [-]

Are you at all familiar with the concepts of evolutionary psychology? Do you think we even have the capacity for friendship in some altruistic way, that while evolution was busy fine-tuning our eyes and our livers into remarkably efficient instruments, that it let the moral aspects of our personalities run open loop, disconnected from any benefit they might possibly bring to us?