Pavitra comments on Wikipedia: Moravec's Paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pavitra 01 March 2011 12:30:37AM 0 points [-]

The fact that it's retargetable and evolved rather than designed seems to suggest elegance. I can imagine evolution producing a moderately complex narrow adaptation, or a simple one that as a side effect of its simplicity happens to generalize, but I don't see how evolution could produce a complex generalizing adaptation.