(Curious what you got banned for, but I guess it was under a different name. I sometimes disagreed with those, but not always. Also, it was his blog. His decisions managing it certainly speak to his character, but I'm not sure how strong a duty of care I actually think he had.)
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Wow. You were banned "f[F]or reasons of total personal caprice. Let it be known that he has not broken any rules and the ban is not his fault. Also, this is the beginning of a Reign of Terror. Govern yourselves accordingly." Guess you weren't kidding.
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Replying to @CoughsOnWombats @Outsideness
The "govern yourselves accordingly" is the key part. "You can be the National Review of the comment section but if you make good arguments, you'll be banned"
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Think I found what got you banned. (Deliberately being slightly cryptic, 'cause twitter:) It's a plausible argument. I agree the adaptation executors/fitness maximizers division is relevant, but it doesn't look to me like you were asserting that it wasn't.
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Kind of looks like a case of making a plausible claim that sounds too much like a less plausible, very taboo claim.
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Otoh, past-you is... I don't know if you're putting too much weight on genetics, but you're putting too little weight on culture. The key insight is that these aren't really separate magisteria: culture is a *response* to genetics.
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So just about all behavior is both genetically-based and culturally-mediated. I think arguments about "how much" things are cultural vs genetic come down to the size of the genetic basin of attraction for any given behavior.
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"Hardcoded" genetic behaviors are ones culture can't influence very much by most measures- practically anything you do culturally ends up in the same place behaviorally. Practically anything. A culture that smothered all babies in their sleep would usually be an exception.
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(I'm not sure how much of this you know, but spelling it put helps me clarify my thinking sometimes.)
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Since culture doesn't do stuff for no reason, we should expect to see some genetic basis for differentially expressed behavior, but this doesn't mean the culture has (what we think of as) *good* reasons to shPe behavior as it does.
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From there you get into cultural evolution - as in cultures are under evolutionary pressure to have adaptive beliefs / practices. This is an argument that I brought up in the comment section that Scott posted about after.
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