TheOtherDave comments on Serious Stories - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 January 2009 11:49PM

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Comment author: pnrjulius 07 June 2012 12:17:44AM 1 point [-]

On the other hand, there must be some downside to pain asymbolia, or we'd all have it. (Plainly the mutation exists; why isn't it selected for?)

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 June 2012 01:21:39AM 0 points [-]

Perhaps it is selected for, but selection hasn't had long enough to operate to disseminate it throughout the population.