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polymathwannabe comments on Ethics in a Feedback Loop: A Parable - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 26 July 2014 04:00:47AM 0 points [-]

The metaphor states that selective pressure strongly favored the tickling impulse. A physiological response that made tickling so much less successful would have been outbred in the ancestral past.