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by asdff 147 days ago
Genetic algorithms created our species, which are far more complex than anything we have written in computer science. I think they have stood up to the tests of creating a viable product for a given behavior.

And with future compute, you will be able to evaluate behavior across an entire range of inputs for countless putative functions. There will be a time when none of this is compute bound. It is today, but in three centuries or more?
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suddenlybananas 146 days ago
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/student-contributors-did-y...

Evolution ain't all that great.

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troupo 146 days ago
> Genetic algorithms created our species, which are far more complex than anything we have written in computer science. I think they have stood up to the tests of creating a viable product for a given behavior.

Yes, and our species is a fragile barely functioning machinery with an insane number of failing points, and hillariously bad and inefficiently placed components.

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