Re: Evolution of Beliefs and Preferences

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 19:44:34 MDT

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    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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