From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 10:30:38 MDT
> (Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>):
> I wouldn't do it because this is a bad example - I would expect the NR2B
> tweak to be a net evolutionary disadvantage even in mice, let alone humans.
Any single-gene tweak is likely to have been an evolutionary
disadvantage in the organism's ancestral environment, but that
doesn't necessarily imply that in would be one in the future.
Evolution has no foresight, but we do.
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