army1987 comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 January 2014 07:32:01AM *  1 point [-]

I partly agree, but a tradition that developed under certain conditions isn't necessarily optimal under different conditions (e.g. much better technology and medicine, less need for manual labour, fewer stupid people (at least for now), etc.).

Otherwise, we'd be even better off just executing our evolved adaptations, which had even more time to develop.