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tialaramextoday at 9:46 AM1 replyview on HN

No. Evolution is not "tuning" it's just statistics at a huge scale. The high likelihood of back pain, the lack of important sensors, broken synthesis pathways, this is not a carefully tuned system, this is just blind luck plus statistics. Which means we can do better because we're purposeful.


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qseratoday at 10:36 AM

>we can do better because we're purposeful.

"Purposeful" does not help if we are mostly clueless.

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