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by bheadmaster 963 days ago
Evolution: Well, our milleniums-long testing indicates that adding decentralization to pulmonary system is not the highest prority right now, as the blood already provides an oxygen cache - in case of pulmonary failure, we have a couple-minutes window to restart it before any permanent damage occurs. You can add it to the backlog, and we'll get to it when we have time.
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matthewaveryusa 963 days ago
That's way too eloquent for evolution. More like: "Hey, let's try this" burp
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nemonemo 963 days ago
For one individual, maybe your analogy might be closer to what evolution tries, but I suspect in a large group of individual in a species over a long period, a more eloquent description could be emerged.
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distract8901 963 days ago
No, it's pretty much "hold my beer, I got this" billions of times until something works.

Evolution isn't organized or eloquent. It's messy and random and non-optimized. Evolution results in many individuals who are not fit, any many evolved solutions are quite plainly bad.

Any elegance or beauty in evolution is a construct humans apply to an incredibly abstract and obtuse concept because that's just what we do to things that are difficult to grok.

Evolution is simply random mutations from various mechanisms, but the only guiding force is that of survival. Some random changes make some individuals more fit to survive, which makes the species more fit in time. There really isn't anything more to it. It's all just random chance averaged over a very, very long time.

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saurik 963 days ago
A very large number of random decisions needn't always yet surprisingly often results in high-level emergent elegant/predictable phenomena... that's like, the entire point of statistics.
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bheadmaster 963 days ago
> Evolution is simply random mutations from various mechanisms, but the only guiding force is that of survival.

Much like enterprise software development.

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distract8901 961 days ago
It's only a matter of time before the conglomeration of ancient software slowly having complexity bolted on becomes self-aware and helps plot the overthrow of the lunar government
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