Eliezer may not have been explicit about this but if your genes suck, you likely die before you spawn. Regardless of the complexity of your genome. So, any ha

Eliezer may not have been explicit about this but if your genes suck, you likely die before you spawn. Regardless of the complexity of your genome. So, any harmful incremental change would be eventually selected out of the gene pool (or at least won't spread). Neutral changes are unlikely to become universal. Therefore, only improvements can be universal enough to be build upon.