Transmission of ideas is not genetic. You don’t need to have kids in order to propagate your ideas. What we need to worry about is to stay in the memetic pool. The genetic pool can go down the drain for all I care.
The genetic pool can go down the drain for all I care.
Once hardware devolves back to vacuum tubes, I’d like to see how your fancy software will continue to run :-P
That’s not what the post is about. In fact, I think I’ll remove that last paragraph. It’s distracting and not much use.
The LessWrong mindset is maladaptive. It leads to leaving behind fewer offspring.
This was the part I found most problematic.
Leaving behind fewer offspring is the definition of maladaptive. That’s not a value judgement, though I did snarkily imply it was, for humor.
Transmission of ideas is not genetic. You don’t need to have kids in order to propagate your ideas. What we need to worry about is to stay in the memetic pool. The genetic pool can go down the drain for all I care.
Once hardware devolves back to vacuum tubes, I’d like to see how your fancy software will continue to run :-P
That’s not what the post is about. In fact, I think I’ll remove that last paragraph. It’s distracting and not much use.
This was the part I found most problematic.
Leaving behind fewer offspring is the definition of maladaptive. That’s not a value judgement, though I did snarkily imply it was, for humor.