Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Why Eat Less Meat? - Less Wrong

48 Post author: peter_hurford 23 July 2013 09:30PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 July 2013 06:08:30AM 17 points [-]

what I thought was the general rationalist belief that altruism in extended societies largely exists for signaling reasons.

That's, um, not a general rationalist belief.

Comment author: DanielLC 26 July 2013 04:54:42AM 6 points [-]

More accurately, we evolved to be altruistic for signalling reasons. However, we don't really care why we evolved to be altruistic. We just care about others.