You wouldn’t want to pass “maladaptive differences” to your children, if it was a possibility, would you?
It depends on which differences we’re talking about. In the modern environment, fertility and intelligence are inversely correlated. But I wouldn’t want to get more grandkids by making my kids stupider.
I am mildly frustrated that both you and the original poster seem to be using the word “maladaptive” as if it were a synonym for “bad” with a convenient veneer of scientific objectivity, like saying “see, evolution agrees with me that such-and-such qualities are morally undesirable!” Ha ha. Evolution, including human evolution, can be horrible. A week ago we had a discussion post about how an actual population of humans regressed to chimp-level intelligence due to evolution.
It continually amazes me that people can read EY’s Azathoth metaphor comparison or sort of understand how evolution works and still end up basically falling for the naturalistic fallacy!
I shared a link to that post since I hoped it would spark the same kind of gut feeling that no evolution really isn’t your friend in others.
It depends on which differences we’re talking about. In the modern environment, fertility and intelligence are inversely correlated. But I wouldn’t want to get more grandkids by making my kids stupider.
I am mildly frustrated that both you and the original poster seem to be using the word “maladaptive” as if it were a synonym for “bad” with a convenient veneer of scientific objectivity, like saying “see, evolution agrees with me that such-and-such qualities are morally undesirable!” Ha ha. Evolution, including human evolution, can be horrible. A week ago we had a discussion post about how an actual population of humans regressed to chimp-level intelligence due to evolution.
Maybe related: You’ll get more than pretty butterflies.
It continually amazes me that people can read EY’s Azathoth metaphor comparison or sort of understand how evolution works and still end up basically falling for the naturalistic fallacy!
I shared a link to that post since I hoped it would spark the same kind of gut feeling that no evolution really isn’t your friend in others.