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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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The latter totally exist. We dress them up as socially acceptable proxies like "reliability" and all the other traits which make for an attractive mate.

Think of it as an economics problem. If most of the human race is leaving $20 bills on the ground, someone gets to pick it up. It doesn't require a specific gene to be flipped--if there is any reasonable combination that will help, it will naturally be selected for more representation in the next generation.