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For uneducated people like me it really seems like Evo psych could explain anything
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What sciences do you know that, to you, can't explain everything? What does optics prohibit, or the germ theory of contagious disease?
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Germ theory prohibits getting flu from licking piece of ice, optics prohibits sharp images from pinhole
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Ok! EP says it'd be surprising if on avg in hunter-gatherer tribes, women loved all children as much as the children they'd birthed.
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What I would hope for is some predictions about avg behavior in new situations, like a spaceship travel to Mars or social network dynamics
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But we didn't evolve on Mars! Definite predictions of EP get confirmed by new observations of people in evolutionarily realistic environs.
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But if we know how we evolved on Earth and know about Mars, and have a good model, then we could get an Idea how it might behave
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Replying to @zmeysa @ESYudkowsky and
Big ifs but some aspects could be predictable
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Like... average moms on Mars will love their children more than other moms' children?
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That *is* an EP prediction! It doesn't apply to big generic neural nets, clay sculpted in God's image, an AGI that I design, etcetera.
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