I wrote the following: > Symmetry underlies almost everything in mathematics and nature. > It's much more reasonable to assume that our computer programs are

I wrote the following: > Symmetry underlies almost everything in mathematics and nature. > It's much more reasonable to assume that our computer programs are not yet good enough to recover that symmetry, than to take the output of current programs as some sort of evidence that asymmetry itself is some sort of ideal. And then I looked out my window at a tree without leaves, between two buildings, and I'm looking at how unorganized the branches look, and I'm not so sure anymore. It's like the "spherical chickens" joke. (Sidenote: it's incredible how angry and volatile this comment section is --- my original comment included. Seems this subject can really strike a personal nerve in many of us. Why?!)