[ExI] Anti-transhumanist crap on Kuro5hin and related.

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 09/11/2007, Harvey Newstrom <mail at harveynewstrom.com> wrote:

> It is a personal pet peeve of mine that people anthropomorphize "evolution"
> into trying to propagate genes to the next generation.  Evolution has no
> such goals.  In reality, the cause and effect are reversed.  Creatures
> undergo random mutations or pursue random acts with no clear goal toward
> propagation.  It is by sheer statistics that those changes less likely to
> survive tend to die out while those changes more likely to survive increase
> in number.  But this should imply no motivation to the creatures involved to
> actually reproduce.  They are usually just rutting beasts that are focused
> on their short-term goals rather than long-term goals.

That is probably how evolution on Earth has worked but it is not how
evolution in general has to work. Once intelligence evolves, planning
for long term goals may become increasingly important as an
evolutionary strategy.





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Stathis Papaioannou