Does Evolution have a Direction? - Erik Torenberg
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Towards increasing non-zero-sumness
In this week’s Moment of Zen, we discussed disenfranchised men, AI doomerism, Effective Altruism, whether politics is downstream from culture, and more with Amjad Masad. Cognitive Revolution was a mash-up episode of Moment of Zen’s best AI moments across episodes. In 1986, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published a book called The Blind Watchmaker. Its subtitle was: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design. Robert Wright has argued that evolution does have a design, it does have a purpose, and that purpose leads us to continuing degrees of…
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