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#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
Lex Fridman Podcast
Are You Trying to Perceive Reality?
"I just think it's completely wrong. And it is, and it's anti life, anti-emitian, anti evolution," he says of a theory by evolutionary biologist Donald Hoffman. "Evolution works because you are fitted to the reality of the situation around you." The vast majority of mutations do not further this animal's life or this plant's life but those that are in touch with reality can survive against predation.
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