Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway) — LessWrong
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Yesterday, I wrote: • > Science has a very exact idea of the capabilities of evolution. If you praise evolution one millimeter higher than this, you'…
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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