Is evolution optimizing for humanity’s well-being?

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Nov 18, 2022 03:48 PM
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Let’s imagine that we have the power to make any world we conceive to instantly exist. We could create eutopias by will.
I think the question is here, whether we even have any possiblity to improve our current world. Is evolution optimizing for us liking it to be in this world? Doesn’t it follow from evolutionary principles that we are ought to maximize fertile offspring? We instrumentally converged towards not wanting to kill ourselves.