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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Discovering Your Secretly Secret Sensory Experiences - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: seez 18 March 2014 10:12AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 March 2014 08:29:37PM *  1 point [-]

Interesting. That puts it into perspective.

ADDED: Thinking about it some more I wonder what that means.

Whats huge in human diversity is not the total diversity (at least as compared to chimpanzees) but the amount of increase in diversity over time. It would appear that selection pressure is lower on humans than on champanzees at least in the last centuries.

Comment author: Baughn 19 March 2014 11:27:57AM 4 points [-]

It's interesting to think about what society might have been like, if it wasn't. You'd expect a lot more variation in intelligence along with everything else.

Potential novel fodder.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 20 March 2014 02:22:08PM 1 point [-]

Please someone write it. I love alternate history.