From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 19:44:34 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Robin writes
>
>
>>On 6/15/2003 Lee Corbin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm interested in knowing how strongly you (and others) rate
>>>various assumptions here. Two immediate questions are
>>>
>>>1. To what degree would you say that the current world sample
>>> of humanity arose via evolutionary selection processes?
>>
>>Human genes evolved via natural selection just like other life
>>on Earth. Recently cultural evolution has influenced behavior.
>
> You were just as infuriating in real life ;-) But thanks
> for answering at all: that is more polite than just ignoring
> uninteresting questions. But I do not discern a great urge
> to discuss this issue with non-experts.
Lee? I didn't understand your question either. It seemed like a very
strange question with a very obvious answer, which Hanson gave
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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