well, for one thing, it's not necessary to look for the explanation in a "just-so" sense; literally, the motivation circuitry overlaps significantly. it's quite appropriate that people talk about projects and creations as their "babies", "labors of love", stuff like that
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re your friends that don't act IAW "maximum inclusive fitness", I guarantee they do! As long as we're using the polymulticellular organism lens. I certainly know everything I do does, except when I'm fucking up and doing shit that isn't useful, anyway --
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hmm. for one thing, it's not clear to me that something like your kinsey number has much weight in any direction, regarding I.F. it certainly would have in an earlier time period, but your overall impact on the species' fitness likely has ~nothing to do with it (it's "small O")
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otoh, due to a confluence of factors, i suspect we may come to recognize actual benefits that explain some of the more curious correlations between intelligence + other positive individual traits, w/ traits that "seem" detrimental to an individual's (literal) reproductive success
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Well, if certain flavors of autism, your place on the kinsey scale, whatever, things like that -- if some turn out, in hindsight, to be actively beneficial, the authoritarian tendencies, overactive disgust response etc that killed Alan Turing early qualify https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/1007368338253721602 …
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well THAT is definitely unfalsifiable, but let me ask this: what impact does his existence as it happened on this timeline have on the survival of your genes, vs on a timeline where he, idk, died as a child or didn't exist or whatever?
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you say that, but surely robotic sample-and-clone mosquitoes are only a decade or two away
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