whpearson comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whpearson 17 February 2010 11:35:25PM *  0 points [-]

Evolution managed to make an optimisation process in our heads, but not one in anything's genes. It had had a lot more time to work with genes as well. Why?

It is possibly worth noting that I am not talking about optimising proteins but the network that controls the activation of the genes. Protein folding is hard.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 18 February 2010 11:17:20PM *  0 points [-]

Evolution managed to make an optimisation process in our heads, but not one in anything's genes.

It may be that getting optimization into our heads was the easiest way to get it into our genes (eventually, when we master genetic engineering).