Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 November 2007 06:39AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (32)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 November 2007 05:34:54PM 5 points [-]

Who can guarantee that chocolate won’t become a super food in near future?

So redesign the human taste system to measure how much of each nutrient you have and how much you need, including micronutrients formerly reliably common in the ancestral environment, and macronutrients formerly reliably scarce. Then it will function fine even after civilization collapses. Evolutions are stupid.

I think the esthetic pleasure of chocolate must have a strong digestive component.

Seth Roberts would agree with you. I don't think he's written about that particular experiment, but it confirms his basic argument on flavor-calorie association.