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by taneq 3112 days ago
"We are adaptation-executors, not fitness-optimisers."
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That is so incredibly true that you only have to explain it to people like anarchists who wish it weren't. By their logic men everywhere would have lost their sex drive the minute women got the pill.

There are just so many examples of predictable human irrationality attributable to this that it's hard to believe anyone doesn't understand it.

We keep executing our adaptations thousands of years after they cease to be useful.