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card_zero • today at 5:31 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Evolution decided the good outweighed the bad, and I expect that evolution was right.

We can expect evolution to do the right thing for the genes. Not for us.


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cortesoft • today at 6:21 PM

I get its just a framework to understand what is happening, but I always hate the phrasing of describing a 'decision' to a process like evolution. There are no decisions being made in the process, just a series of outcomes that lead in a direction

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creatonez • today at 10:54 PM

Selfish gene theory is discredited as reductionist and mostly wrong. You can't ignore the whole organism.