pdf23ds comments on Qualitative Strategies of Friendliness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pdf23ds 31 August 2008 03:47:44AM 4 points [-]

> > Where does your desire come from?

> I am the product of an evolutionary process. All my ancestors actively took steps to preserve their inheritance.

Fallacy. Very few people have a *conscious intention* to preserve their genes. And yet, a very large number of people do end up preserving them, because their behavior patterns are designed by a process which reliably yields organisms that preserve their genes. We didn't evolve to be concerned about posterity, we evolved to have sex with each other, and to love and raise our babies (especially if we're female).