It’s not that evolutionary pressure doesn’t exist after a catastroph that kills most members of a species. There will still be different reproduction rates of different members of the species. Not all members will find mates. The key point is that the evolutionary pressure is quite different from the pressure that the species is usually exposed.
The thing that’s more central is that there’s not one specific context for which everything is optimized. That gives you diversity.
When I contribute on LessWrong I might get benefits such as status but the evaluation of my performance is sufficently unclear that it’s hard to focus on those gains and easy to just write what I consider to be important.
It’s not that evolutionary pressure doesn’t exist after a catastroph that kills most members of a species. There will still be different reproduction rates of different members of the species. Not all members will find mates. The key point is that the evolutionary pressure is quite different from the pressure that the species is usually exposed.
The thing that’s more central is that there’s not one specific context for which everything is optimized. That gives you diversity.
When I contribute on LessWrong I might get benefits such as status but the evaluation of my performance is sufficently unclear that it’s hard to focus on those gains and easy to just write what I consider to be important.