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"This is why no animal has evolved wheels" instead animals evolved brains and hands that invent and build wheels. Nice way to jump out of the supposed limitati
by lkozma 17y ago
"This is why no animal has evolved wheels"
instead animals evolved brains and hands that invent and build wheels. Nice way to jump out of the supposed limitation of hill-climbing algorithm.
- AngryParsley 17y agoEvolution has limitations that go beyond inefficiency. For example: it is completely indifferent to the organisms it operates on. Evolution has absolutely no compassion. It will not select for traits that reduce suffering in dying organisms. Evolution isn't forward-looking. It doesn't notice when it starts on a journey to trap itself in a local maxima. Evolution is slow. Life started on this planet not long after the surface solidified, but it took 4 billion years for general intelligence to evolve. 4 billion years and countless organisms suffering and dying just to get 3lbs of gray matter. Had it taken much longer, the Sun would have gotten farther along in its life cycle and sterilized the Earth before evolution stumbled on general intelligence. Sorry for that mini-diatribe, but I don't like it when people paint evolution in a positive light. It really is one of the dumbest possible ways to explore a solution space.