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I think people are missing your point: Human beings seem to be built based on hacks around incompetence, yet we've made it for quite some time, it's not a great

• thaumasiotes 12y ago
  That's one of two points. Indeed, humans are a much, much longer-lasting system than the internet. But you can also think about why these kinks in the design of living things arose in the first place; as wikipedia nicely points out, a lot of glaring mistakes in one animal work the way you'd expect in other animals. The "mistakes" arise because they're the fastest way to produce a desirable result, and they persist for great periods because making changes to a working system is very hard. In a certain sense, history does show that adding hacks on to the "outside" of a working system, so that it stays working at all times, can be a superior strategy to trying to revamp the whole thing in an elegant manner.