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timtyler comments on The Stable State is Broken - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: timtyler 14 March 2012 04:34:53PM *  0 points [-]

The idea is this: The subset of participants which rises to prominence in any area does so because its members have traits helpful to becoming prominent, not necessarily because they have traits which are desirable.

That sounds like a special case of Universal Darwinism. Some videos on the topic from me: