Tim_Tyler comments on Complexity and Intelligence - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 November 2008 08:27PM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 09 November 2008 11:42:00PM 0 points [-]

The problem is that there is no mechanism in the process of natural selection for stuffing that foresight generated by brains back into the genome. Learn all you want but it isn't passed onto you kids via your genes. That's the rub.

There most certainly are such mechanisms. Most obviously sexual selection and the Baldwin effect - but also via vanilla natural selection. I explain this issue clearly enough in my essay.