timtyler comments on Evolving to Extinction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 01 May 2011 09:01:11AM *  0 points [-]

You can't even praise evolution for the solicitous concern it shows for genes; the battle between two alternative alleles at the same location is a zero-sum game for frequency.

It seems like an artificially negative way of looking at it. Alleles are in competition with every other species. It seems rather biased to only pick out the other alleles at the same loci to compare with, and then to compare frequencies rather than absoulte allele numbers (which is not a zero-sum game).

Basically, this post is a rant against evoultion. Yet, evolution made you and me, and all living things on the planet. I think you should give credit where credit is due.