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minus-squarerazorcandy@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·19 hours agoOptimization was never the goal. It just has to function well enough for a sufficient portion of the species to reproduce.
minus-squarewitty_username@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·17 hours agoEvolution is an optimisation process, just a very slow, wasteful and stupid one. It finds local optima which it usually gets stuck in.
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·16 hours agoevolution is the epitome of “good enough, ship it!”
minus-squareDearOldGrandma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·19 hours agoLiterally the evolutionary equivalent of “eh, good enough”
Optimization was never the goal. It just has to function well enough for a sufficient portion of the species to reproduce.
Evolution is an optimisation process, just a very slow, wasteful and stupid one. It finds local optima which it usually gets stuck in.
evolution is the epitome of “good enough, ship it!”
Literally the evolutionary equivalent of “eh, good enough”