Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

32 Post author: katydee 07 March 2013 02:11AM

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Comment author: DiamondSoul 12 March 2013 03:41:56AM 7 points [-]

I believe what army means is that some people mistakenly use evo-psy to make claims along the lines of "we have evolved to have [some characteristic], therefore it is morally right for us to have [aforementioned characteristic]".

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 12 March 2013 04:06:38AM 6 points [-]

Right. Many armchair evolutionary psychologists don't understand the nature of the evolutionary-cognitive boundary.