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> Natural selection seems to be really bad at modular design. Or the other way around, modular design does not appear to be a requirement for "success.". We li
by ycombobreaker 7y ago
> Natural selection seems to be really bad at modular design.
Or the other way around, modular design does not appear to be a requirement for "success.". We like it for the reduction in complexity but that is ultimately a tradeoff.
- danenania 7y agoWell, it’s successful until it’s not. Nature’s primary approach to debugging seems to be: you die. We clearly weren’t intended to open up the hood and fix things.
- pacala 7y agoBiology doesn't care about individuals. It cares about populations. The main mechanism is exponential growth, capable of quickly filling carrying capacity boundaries of arbitrary size. Individual death is a small setback, as another branch of the exponential growth tree takes over shortly.