It’s very possible that individual intelligence has not evolved past its current levels because it is at an equilibrium, beyond which higher individual intelligence results in lower social utility.
Woop, woop, group selection being presumed to win against individual selection alert.
No. Group selection being presumed to be a force in evolution that can counter individual selection.
This is not the place for a group selection debate. My well-informed opinion, expressed in other places on this site but deleted from the Wiki by Eliezer, is that the empirical evidence has always indicated group selection can occur, while the arguments against it have always been based on abstract mathematical models, all of which are now known to be fatally flawed in multiple ways.
Woop, woop, group selection being presumed to win against individual selection alert.
No. Group selection being presumed to be a force in evolution that can counter individual selection.
This is not the place for a group selection debate. My well-informed opinion, expressed in other places on this site but deleted from the Wiki by Eliezer, is that the empirical evidence has always indicated group selection can occur, while the arguments against it have always been based on abstract mathematical models, all of which are now known to be fatally flawed in multiple ways.