timtyler comments on Information theory and FOOM - Less Wrong

6 Post author: PhilGoetz 14 October 2009 04:52PM

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Comment author: timtyler 16 October 2009 06:31:08AM 2 points [-]

Inaccurate premise: I don't think my job is "only to find fault with ideas". When I do that, it's often because that is the simplest and fastest way to contribute. Destruction is easier than construction - but it is pretty helpful nonetheless. Critics have saved me endless hours of frustration pursuing bad ideas. I wish to pass some of that on.

In this particular sub-thread, my behavior is actually fairly selfish: if there's reasonable evidence that DNA-evolution has been slowing down, I would be interested in hearing about it. However, I'm not going to find such evidence in this thread if people get the idea that this point has already been established.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 21 October 2009 10:20:19PM 1 point [-]

I don't have strong evidence that DNA evolution has been slowing down in bacteria. I presented both evidence and explanation why it has been slowing down in eukaryotes. That is all that matters for this post; because the point of referring to DNA evolution in this post has to do with how efficiently evolution uses information in the production of intelligence. Eukaryotes are more intelligent than bacteria.