Re: CFCs and ethics

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Nov 07 1999 - 17:45:53 MST


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Consider for instance the <faithfulness in marriage>. Most would
> recognize that this meme is solidly CFC based...

Untrue. Historically and cognitively untrue. Marriage existed in
hunter-gatherer times, as did the issue of faithfulness in marriage and
adultery. It exists in *birds*.

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