Decius comments on The Octopus, the Dolphin and Us: a Great Filter tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 22 September 2014 09:59:41PM 4 points [-]

In addition, cultural memes can evolve and be passed down completely independently of genes.

It doesn't matter to the cultural memes if they propagate using genetically unfit people; celibate monks were a culture where celibate monkhood was a real thing.