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I'd like to construct the strongest case for a loosely humanist thesis roughly framed as "our best species evolutionary future is the one opened up by trying to take everybody along for the ride, and anything less is a vaguely eugenicist misunderstanding of evolution"
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Any pseudoscience gloss on "fitness" that allows you to infer a legible inclusion/exclusion function on the set of currently alive human beings is basically pseudoscientific bullshit. "IQ = fitness" is the most egregious example, closely followed by paleo-fitness.
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Many bullshit "chosen people" eschatologies are about figuring out the set to fit through a survival bottleneck of fixed size rather than trying to take along as many people as possible. The metaphor of Noah's ark makes this particularly compelling to the western imagination.
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