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People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth belaboring: In the ancestral environment, politics was a matter of life and de…

x Politics is the Mind-Killer — LessWrong Politics and Rationality Politics Tribalism Social & Cultural Dynamics Rationality Frontpage 345 Politics is the Mind-Killer by Eliezer Yudkowsky 18th Feb 2007 2 min read 243 345 People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth belaboring: In the ancestral environment, politics was a matter of life and death. And sex, and wealth, and allies, and reputation . . . When, today, you get into an argument about whether “we” ought to raise the minimum wage, you’re executing adaptations fo

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