[ajmurmann]

Evolution very much involves random mutations that turn out useless or harmful and thus don't spread.

This is in fact less random than how generic algorithms used to work traditionally which encoded behaviors in some data structure that then got randomly mutated or crossed with other candidates in the pool.

[2ndorderthought]

I am aware of what biological evolution is. This isn't analogous. I love my software friends, I'm a software person now too, but the level at which people take algorithms that involve any level of biomimicry as a model for actual biology is frustrating.