Natural selection has no mind and does not plan for the future

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• A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human. SCSean Carroll22 Apr 2024evolutionary biology
• A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait. DRDavid Reich8 May 2026evolutionary biology
• A tribe of loyal, self-sacrificing members would defeat most other tribes, which is natural selection CDCharles Darwinc. 1871–1874evolutionary biology
• Biology's endless forms arise inevitably from adaptive evolution interacting with computational irreducibility, not from natural selection alone. SWStephen Wolfram23 Oct 2026evolutionary biology
• Claude's constitution leans too much on moral philosophy and too little on evolutionary biology. JHJoseph Henrich26 Sept 2026evolutionary biology

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