srdiamond comments on Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief - LessWrong
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This would seem true if the only force involved in evolution were natural selection. But selection selection seems to have played a considerable role in human evolution. A horizon limited to reproduction doesn't seem very sexy to my intuitions.
Well, in principle a: one can fake whatever signals it takes and b: the mate selection goes both ways, the effective reproducer should more often mate with another effective reproducer.