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It's like if you had a version of C that replaced all compilation errors with undefined behavior.

• grawprog 8y ago
  There's a small part of me that wants this to exist. That sounds both horrifying and pretty hilarious at the same time.
• Valmar 8y ago
  Exactly. And that's why the OP is a bit horrifying. DNA's compiler seems to love undefined behaviour ~ probably because the DNA writers knew precisely what to do, without errors. Undefined behaviour? Whatever ~ creativity ftw! So, life is greatest and laziest hacker, confirmed, lol?
• snaky 8y ago
  We were told the evolution do the thing this way exactly, but one error at a time.
• salawat 8y ago
  Not really. It's more like a compiler, an optimizer/simulator, and compiler-compiler all pipelined in a circle. Seemingly random changes get incorporated into a starting binary that are selectively pruned/modified during the simulation/optimization phase, which generates a new compiler-compiler, which constructs a new compiler, which generates a new binary to run through the optimzer again. It's more in-depth, because I'm abstracting away the elegance of protein/enzyme selection and translation through biochemical/mechanical fitness... But it's all there. I'm just afraid of the predilection humanity as a collective has for not taking into account/being able to reason through higher order network effects. Our economic/environmental woes prove that anything approaching the periodicity of a human lifespan becomes extremely hard to analyze/predict in any meaningful way. It seems to work though... So some days I feel like I can't really frame an argument against it. It's kind of hard to argue that it isn't working when you have air conditioning.