it's understandable that the CCP cracks down on the media. i mean you see how utterly subversive the media is in the West. who wants that in their country? but it may be hopeless ultimately

https://youtu.be/Xcmsy4Jd8uI Canadian culture is beautiful

@Fifmut what are your criticisms of group selection theory?

that it never explains more than gene selection

anything you can explain with group selection, you can also explain with gene selection

the reverse is not true

as i said, it's an illusion

worth the uwu flu

do the proponents of group selection claim that it explains more than gene selection?

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oh, fantastic JF

thanks

Those nipples tho

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we've been at it all day about Inclusive Fitness and Group Selection

if it never explains more, usually less, and frequently leads people towards wrong predictions, whats the point?

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The goyim are rising against us everywhere

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thats bad

well, there's still an empirical question - is eusocial behavior caused by Inclusive Fitness?

group selection is just a way of organizing the answer to that question

even if we're talking about selection on organisms, organisms are still not replicators

great name

so I could say, "why talk about individual selection"

You can use group selection if you're extremely careful and not lose sight of it being an emergent property of gene selection

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But I think it's very rare that thinking in a group selectionist view would be more practical than gene or individual selection

If we make Christopher the Bat, will the ching chongs be less suspicious of us mocking them

@Nerthulas That's exactly the point. The higher level of selection you view, the more likely it is to predict incorrectly. Individual selection can be handy, but it can also lead you astray. Gene selection always works

would people, instead of a Fifa Soccer just play RUGBY 2020 (pirated edition), we could get at least one nuclear power plant of the grid because we'd save so much traffic, and give Greta some life-force back.

of course groups are not Dawkinsian replicators, I don't think group selectionists tend to claim this, although Hector did at one point

it just

explains the emergence of traits which are fitness-decreasing on the individual level