From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 11:53:13 MST
Alden Streeter wrote:
>
> What makes you think that every species doesn't maximize it's rate of
> mutation? Evolution predicts that there should be an equilibrium between
> mutation rate ensuring maximum variation for potential evolution and
> mutation prevention ensuring adequate health of the population. Mutatation
> rate is itself an evolved trait.
ERROR 514: group selection postulated
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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