army1987 comments on Automatic programming, an example - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Thomas 01 February 2012 08:55PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2012 07:47:58PM 5 points [-]

Program code does not have the redundancy or flexibility of genetics, as you know with syntax errors it shatters if a single character is wrong

And a single mutation in DNA in the wrong place can be disastrous, too.