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by goodpoint 1880 days ago
> evolutionary advantage

> If we'd had the same factory work for millions of years, we might have some mechanisms to enjoy or get good at it.

This is simply NOT how evolution works. It's not intelligent and does not super-optimize a species for some task.

It's very chaotic and messy and constantly gets stuck into local minima/maxima where species are barely "good enough" to survive.

Furthermore, it works only on a set of physical attributes. There isn't a set of genes for liking repetitive work, or pop music, or similar abstract psychological traits.

This is why the infamous eugenics experiments of the 1940s could not develop superhuman psychological traits.

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Please provide evidence to the contrary instead of silent downvotes.