Tim_Tyler comments on BHTV: Jaron Lanier and Yudkowsky - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 November 2008 05:04PM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 02 November 2008 09:16:46AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer doesn't seem to be drawing on the Daniel Dennett side of the force when it comes to cultural evolution. Dennett is one of the more famous cheerleaders for cultural evolution - and would never dream of writing: it drives me up the wall when people lump together natural selection and intelligence-driven processes as "evolutionary".