Its a materialistic process without a mind of its own but the outcome of this process is clear: root out the weak. You can't deny that.
"Weak" is an imprecise term. I'm betting that AI will kill us all, meaning that the "strong" being evolution selected for is, in my opinion, going to unintentionally kill itself off in favor of some mindless machine replicator.
While a "weaker", meaning less productively successful, but more cooperative version of ourselves could have gone on to conquer the stars and bring light into a dark, empty galaxy. If we all end up dying anyhow, how "strong" was the set of traits being selected for in the first place?
Intelligence turned out to be one of the most empowering traits for our species. If evolution wasn't so shit at making its subjects
strong, in a meaningful sense of the word, some other species would have gone down that IQmaxxing route ages ago. If selecting for strength was its "job", then it's fucking unqualified, short-sighted and should be fired and replaced.
At the very least me, always me. But also to some other people in my life. I have been told I'm quite likeable, and not only by women who were rejecting me. And for sure to my mom & the dog.
That is not how this works. Value and worth are not intrinsic.
Don't see how that connects. The value being maximized for by evolution is not something I care about or see any reason to care about in a modern setting. And the traits the society I was born into is selecting for are, I would bet, going to destroy it in the near future. But even if they don't, I still reject them.
I know what I value, I have a rationale as to why, even though it's in part down to innate predisposition. I have a value system with a positive and negative pole and I think it's more objective than subjective in nature.
Society (many people) can disagree, but at least one person (me) thinks and feels that way. I wish it were more, but I'm still not interested in adapting society's view point. I would rather try and make more people see the world as I see it.