Evolution by natural selection optimizes for fitness payoffs, not truth; fitness and truth are decoupled and fitness does not require accuracy about objective reality
causalpending
Speaker
Donald HoffmanEvidence Quote
“Fitness beats truth and fitness does not have to be connected to truth is the claim”
Source
Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293— Lex FridmanCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:10:10 PM
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