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Very different. The earth being a globe is observable and is a fact. Evolution is a theory and is not observable at all. It is all based on a huge assumption (w

by mavili 4y ago

Very different. The earth being a globe is observable and is a fact. Evolution is a theory and is not observable at all. It is all based on a huge assumption (we THINK that is how things happened). The wide-spread acceptance of evolution is because of lack of another explanation of how life must have come into existence when you cannot bring yourself to give any possibility to a supernatural entity.

orwin 4y ago
No, it's based on observation and mathematical models. Computer science helped a lot in this regards, and i found myself at a loss when people on "Hacker"news don't seems to know about a whole field of their discipline. Hell, we recently had a computer simulation that demonstrated HGT. I thought any engineer would have been interested on this story, but apparently not.
- mavili 4y ago
  A computer simulation, programmed to simulate based on rules you have provided beforehand, and did you ever question that?! Artificial intelligence models trained on content derived from society will produce content that conforms to what it was trained with. Likewise simulations given similar rules will of course result in an outcome favourable to the rules specified. But of course you will take things at face value because "it's all science"!
  - orwin 4y ago
    Wow, that's aggressive. I merely pointed out that in my opinion, the fact that HGT appeared from scratch in a computer simulation was interesting enough for engineers who feel strongly about the subject to be aware of it. This isn't particulary interesting to me and I know about it. Also, when I was a student and had to much time, we built a genetic algorithm to train a connect 4 IA, and it helped me understand how a very simplified evolution theory actually work. I would advise you to do the same (let's face it, CS courses are a joke and you probably could do this during classes)
criddell 4y ago
Evolution is observable and is also a fact. The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is one example.

by mavili 4y ago

orwin 4y ago

No, it's based on observation and mathematical models. Computer science helped a lot in this regards, and i found myself at a loss when people on "Hacker"news don't seems to know about a whole field of their discipline. Hell, we recently had a computer simulation that demonstrated HGT. I thought any engineer would have been interested on this story, but apparently not.

mavili 4y ago
A computer simulation, programmed to simulate based on rules you have provided beforehand, and did you ever question that?! Artificial intelligence models trained on content derived from society will produce content that conforms to what it was trained with. Likewise simulations given similar rules will of course result in an outcome favourable to the rules specified. But of course you will take things at face value because "it's all science"!
- orwin 4y ago
  Wow, that's aggressive. I merely pointed out that in my opinion, the fact that HGT appeared from scratch in a computer simulation was interesting enough for engineers who feel strongly about the subject to be aware of it. This isn't particulary interesting to me and I know about it. Also, when I was a student and had to much time, we built a genetic algorithm to train a connect 4 IA, and it helped me understand how a very simplified evolution theory actually work. I would advise you to do the same (let's face it, CS courses are a joke and you probably could do this during classes)

criddell 4y ago

Evolution is observable and is also a fact. The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is one example.