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MBlume comments on Blues, Greens and abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MBlume 17 March 2011 07:04:32AM 2 points [-]

Ultimately, I think that monoculture is more dangerous than infanticide.

We can't afford, as a society, to let rape be a viable reproductive strategy.

I'm not sure you understand how long Biology would have to remain in the driver's seat for these things to remotely matter...

Comment author: Pavitra 18 March 2011 01:50:34AM 1 point [-]

Evolution can work quickly under artificial selection.

But perhaps you were talking about transhumanism displacing inherited psychology? In that case, I'd observe that probably either (1) many rapists would choose to become more effective rapists, rather than alter their utility functions, or (2) we'd probably need some sort of government screening upgrades or something, which leads back into the monoculture problem. There may be no good solution.