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by catskul2 158 days ago
... or circumstances now select for "high agency" humans, and those humans propagate.

Not sure why we think normal evolution wouldn't just route around such problems.

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It certainly will but not necessarily to our species' benefit. I'd be less concerned if I understood why this happens in mice:

https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941

Evolution operates in much larger time scales.
Evolution operates at every time scale.