DSimon comments on Image vs. Impact: Can public commitment be counterproductive for achievement? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 21 July 2011 09:34:13PM 1 point [-]

We think we will have self-control, but when the time comes, the short-leash modules trigger and convince us to have unprotected sex (to advance genetic interests).

I'm not sure this makes sense as an evolutionary mechanism. Contraception hasn't been around long enough for it to be a selective pressure, has it?