aberglas comments on Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong Discussion
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Yes and no. In the sense that memes as well as genes float about then certainly. But we have strong instincts to raise and protect children, and we have brains. There is not particular reason why we should sacrifice ourselves for our children other than those instincts, which are in our genes.