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Alexandros comments on Singularity FAQ - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: lukeprog 19 April 2011 05:27PM

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Comment author: Alexandros 20 April 2011 04:39:29PM 3 points [-]

"Humans can intelligently adapt to radically new problems in the urban jungle or outer space for which evolution could not have prepared them."

This here trips my 'then what did?' sensors. I understand the intent, but evolution -did- prepare us, by giving us general intelligence. Perhaps you meant that evolution did not -specifically- adapt us to those challenges?