From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 02:36:39 MDT
"Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather
than as fitness-maximizers."
-- John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, The Adapted Mind, p. 54
If the altruism adaptation originally evolved because it contributed to
fitness, that does not mean that altruism is a *cognitive* subgoal of
reproductive fitness in the human organism.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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