Seems like a bargain, if the games are three times as good as $40 games running on a $300 console. I don't get all the whining about the price. You don't always get what you pay for, but you rarely get what you don't pay for (talking about consumer items, I mean). You could just as well whine that you aren't going to pay more than $1000 for a computer. So, fine. You can have a cheap computer.
> Evolution optimizes for reproductive fitness only...
If the survival of offspring were guaranteed by their production, that would make sense. But it isn't, and therefore doesn't. Evolution is about propagation of genes. For that to happen, you need the offspring to survive. And their offspring, too. Long story short: evolution cares about the social environment in which offspring live, and parents are part of that, as are cousins, uncles, friends, neighbors, and strangers. Artificial artifacts of civilization are part of that, too, come to think of it, as are ideas, and the responses of organisms to them. It doesn't reduce quite so simply as you suggest.
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Seems like a bargain, if the games are three times as good as $40 games running on a $300 console. I don't get all the whining about the price. You don't always get what you pay for, but you rarely get what you don't pay for (talking about consumer items, I mean). You could just as well whine that you aren't going to pay more than $1000 for a computer. So, fine. You can have a cheap computer.
> Evolution optimizes for reproductive fitness only ...
If the survival of offspring were guaranteed by their production, that would make sense. But it isn't, and therefore doesn't. Evolution is about propagation of genes. For that to happen, you need the offspring to survive. And their offspring, too. Long story short: evolution cares about the social environment in which offspring live, and parents are part of that, as are cousins, uncles, friends, neighbors, and strangers. Artificial artifacts of civilization are part of that, too, come to think of it, as are ideas, and the responses of organisms to them. It doesn't reduce quite so simply as you suggest.