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57 Post author: Bakkot 12 March 2012 06:31PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 13 March 2012 10:16:08PM 5 points [-]

Also because our ancestral environment didn't have large enough selection pools for the social and economic examples to arise- we could blame any failures in the tribe on particular people, and so we think of such things as vice rather than obvious selection bias.