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by hansvm 819 days ago
> if you move slower, you evolve slower

In the plank limit maybe. Large-scale "organic" farms speed up evolution 100,000x with the right drug cocktail to circumvent the current legal definitions of "GMO." They aren't pumping 100,000x more energy into the system. Our base rate of evolution is naturally selected for complicated reasons which _involve_ the available entropy supply but aren't simply monotonically dependent on it.