improvement via evolution

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 20:52:29 MDT


At 10:41 AM 6/18/02 -0400, Eliezer wrote:

>All of which directly contradicts the assertion that more complex systems
>are necessarily harder to improve. Evolution, acting entirely without
>foresight, has managed to set things up so that more and more complex
>systems offer more and more handles for making adaptive changes, and ways to
>control more and more coordinated complexity through atomic mutations to
>single genes that govern complex systems.

What happened to Algernon's Law?

Damien Broderick



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