Neal Stephenson is a talentless hack.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It's genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.
What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.