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We're not really in a peak or valley of any kind at the moment. If evolution pushed us to a zero-point in the derivative of any kind of imaginary fitness funct
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
We're not really in a peak or valley of any kind at the moment. If evolution pushed us to a zero-point in the derivative of any kind of imaginary fitness function, it was probably a saddle point in which some mutations fall right off and others could rise high but would require more environmental resources.
But otherwise we should assume that zeroes in the derivative are uncommon, and thus we're probably not at one.
- bobcostas55 11y agoMy point is not that we're at the exact top, but that we might be near the top of a hill when there's a mountain next to it. Evolution isn't going to go down the hill to climb up the mountain, but an engineer might eventually be able to do it.