PhilGoetz comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong
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No, winning is good but losing is also useful - we ought to permanently eliminate from the corpus any argument that fails. Even if it wouldn't fail against a blockhead without the intellectual muscle to finesse a counter.
If you permanently eliminate from the gene pool any genes that aren't currently working efficiently, your ability to evolve is limited.