Elf_M._Sternberg comments on The Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 February 2009 04:44PM

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Comment author: Elf_M._Sternberg 12 February 2009 07:37:48PM 0 points [-]

I usually hear "People are adapted with filters that enable them to learn that (set of behaviors X) signals (intentions Y) with varying degrees of effectiveness." Drawing the hard, bright line blurs the messy etiology of both, and implies an anti-sphexishness bias that tends to (pun intended) bug me. I'm comfortable with my sphexishness.