[B]oth natural selection and the historical record offer powerful reasons for doubting the trustworthiness of our naive moral intuitions. So the possibility that human civilisation might be founded upon some monstrous evil should be taken seriously - even if the possibility seems transparently absurd at the time.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[B]oth natural selection and the historical record offer powerful reasons for doubting the trustworthiness of our naive moral intuitions. So the possibility that human civilisation might be founded upon some monstrous evil should be taken seriously - even if the possibility seems transparently absurd at the time." in the context of ""The Antispeciesist Revolution", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 26 Jul. 2013" to mean that wisdom is timeless.