If there were lots of failed major transitions in evolution, that would also update us towards there being a greater number of attempted transitions than we previously thought, which would in turn update us positively on information-based civilization emerging eventually, no? Or are you assuming that these would be too weird/different from homo sapiens such that we wouldn’t share values enough?
Furthermore, sexual selection looks like a fairly simple and straightforward solution to the problem ‘organisms with higher life expectancy don’t evolve quickly enough’, so it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of space left for any alternatives.
If there were lots of failed major transitions in evolution, that would also update us towards there being a greater number of attempted transitions than we previously thought, which would in turn update us positively on information-based civilization emerging eventually, no? Or are you assuming that these would be too weird/different from homo sapiens such that we wouldn’t share values enough?
Furthermore, sexual selection looks like a fairly simple and straightforward solution to the problem ‘organisms with higher life expectancy don’t evolve quickly enough’, so it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of space left for any alternatives.