Yvain comments on Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model - LessWrong

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Comment author: Yvain 05 August 2010 03:27:56AM 3 points [-]

What do you mean? Do you mean the genetic explanation (as in "it was a mutation on the long arm of chromosome 20?") or do you mean the evolutionary pressures that were behind it?

I tried to explain the evolutionary pressures behind it - eg a person who couldn't signal would be unsuccessful, a person who signaled but never acted on those signals would be unconvincing. If you think those pressures wouldn't be sufficient, why not?

I don't have a play-by-play genetic explanation, but neither do a lot of well-established things.