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by the8472 778 days ago
Comparing it to evolution and SNPs isn't really a good analogy. Novel network architectures are much larger changes, maybe comparable to new organelles or metabolic pathways? And those have caused catastrophic changes. Evolution also operates on much longer time-scales due to its blind parallel search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_catastrophe