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Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway) — LessWrong

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Science has a very exact idea of the capabilities of evolution. If you praise evolution one millimeter higher than this, you're not "fighting on evolution's side" against creationism. You're being scientifically inaccurate, full stop. In this post I describe some well-known inefficiencies and limitations of evolutions. I say "evolutions", plural, because fox evolution works at cross-purposes to rabbit evolution, and neither can talk to snake evolution to learn how to build venomous fangs. So I am talking about limitations of evolution here, but this does not mean I am trying to sneak in creationism. This is standard Evolutionary Biology 201. (583 if you must derive the equations.) Evolutions, thus limited, can still explain observed biology; in fact the limitations are necessary to make sense of it. Remember that the wonder of evolutions is not how well they work, but that they work at all. Human intelligence is so complicated that no one has any good way to calculate how efficient it

x Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway) — LessWrong The Simple Math of Evolution Evolution Frontpage 118 Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway) by Eliezer Yudkowsky 3rd Nov 2007 5 min read 68 118 Yesterday, I wrote : Science has a very exact idea of the capabilities of evolution. If you praise evolution one millimeter higher than this, you're not "fighting on evolution's side" against creationism. You're being scientifically inaccurate, full stop. In this post I describe some well-known inefficiencies and limitations of evolutions. I say "evolutions", plural, because fox evolution works at

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