From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 10:30:24 MDT
At 12:07 PM 6/6/02 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
>Improving from an average of 2.02 surviving children to 2.04 surviving
>children is a significant improvement to reproductive fitness, *if spread
>over a sufficient number of generations*, or so I would guess.
[my *emphasis*]
Gott in Hund! Didn't Emlyn make it plain that he was speaking of *cultural*
modification, with its swift capacity to reshape the comfort zone of the
meme bearers whose sluggish genomic adaptations are many orders of
magnitude slower. There's a weird reductionism which keeps cropping up on
this list that seeks to compress everything interesting about humans into
genetics. Even with someone as savvy as Eliezer. Or so it seems to me.
Damien Broderick
[a cautious reductionist]
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