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This comment feels like a Douglas Adams joke going slightly over my head.

• jerf 5y ago
  No, it's just the biological analog of those stories you hear about AIs exploiting the rules of the simulation to crash it and score infinite points or whatever. Evolution/natural selection is at work all over the place, it can't be stopped, and it's even less able to be controlled and corralled than in the AI case. When you breed a long line of lab animals, you can't help but start imposing new selection pressures that didn't exist in the wild specimen, while having also removed other selection pressures, and the result will be that fairly quickly you don't quite have fully natural specimens. How much that matters depends on the nature of your experiments. Many cases it won't matter at all. Some experiments may entirely wrecked.
  • dalbasal 5y ago
    OK... I have to. jerf, are you a mouse?
    • jerf 5y ago
      I believe in this context the correct question is whether I'm a hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional creature whose rodent aspect represents merely a three-dimensional projection of my actual form, to which I can safely say, no comment.
      • dalbasal 5y ago
        just checkin. I hope the unintelligent fly problem isn't causing you too much nuisance.