army1987 comments on Two Truths and a Lie - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Psychohistorian 23 December 2009 06:34AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 October 2013 07:24:44AM 0 points [-]

Why are you surprised that such defects exist?

A priori, I wouldn't have expected such a high-resolution retina to evolve in the first place, if the lens in front of it wouldn't have allowed one to take full advantage of it anyway. So I would have expected the resolving power of the lens to roughly match the resolution of the retina. (Well, oversampling can prevent moiré effects, but how likely was that to be an issue in the EEA?)