Now I wonder why Eliezer’s post calls the original problem unsolved. Surely such elementary solutions couldn’t have evaded the experts in the field? I’m guessing that I made a mistake somewhere...
Unfortunately, this will only work in a population with a weak segregation distorter. Remember, mutations that do a specific thing are rare, and detecting the presence of a specific allele that doesn’t have large-scale phenotypic effects is tough. By the time the segregation distorting allele is a large fraction of the population it is almost too late for the population.
Nice!
Now I wonder why Eliezer’s post calls the original problem unsolved. Surely such elementary solutions couldn’t have evaded the experts in the field? I’m guessing that I made a mistake somewhere...
Unfortunately, this will only work in a population with a weak segregation distorter. Remember, mutations that do a specific thing are rare, and detecting the presence of a specific allele that doesn’t have large-scale phenotypic effects is tough. By the time the segregation distorting allele is a large fraction of the population it is almost too late for the population.