Wes_W comments on Rationality Quotes Thread February 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wes_W 08 February 2015 05:29:17AM *  0 points [-]

Yes...? And one of the key traits of a useful map is accuracy.

I mean, yes, clearly natural selection doesn't value truth for its own sake. It certainly does favor truth for instrumental reasons. I'm uncomfortable phrasing this as "indifferent to truth" as the original quote did. But perhaps we're talking past each other, here.