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“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” William Blake
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Replying to @mwilcox @natfriedman
Wow, this is a whole lot of word salad.
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What are the traits of a generalist?
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Like, the spear-throwing thing *seems* clever, until you consider that maybe there aren’t so much “spear-throwing genes” as there are genes for things like dexterity and intelligence, which are pretty generally useful
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Do you have any evidence that there are environments where dumber organisms perform better, or that intelligence trades off against any other useful trait? Like, what it actually trades off against is energy conservation, which is a thoroughly solved problem
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Doesn’t really matter. We’ve used our intelligence to increase by many orders of magnitude the number of humans that can be supported by the calories available to us; the surplus itself has become our chief health problem!
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