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| | The core fallacy of anthropomorphism is expecting something to be predicted by the black box of your brain, when its casual structure is so different from that of a human brain, as to give you no license to expect any such thing. The Tragedy of Group Selectionism (as previously covered in the evolution sequence) was a rather extreme error by a group of early (pre-1966) biologists, including Wynne-Edwards, Allee, and Brereton among others, who believed that predators would voluntarily restrain their breeding to avoid overpopulating their habitat and exhausting the prey population.
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| | Do biological minds have a future?
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| | Is there an ethically relevant difference between a pig and a toddler of equivalent sentience?
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| There are at least some encouraging facts that suggest it is not too late to prevent a pure replicator takeover.