Lumifer comments on MIRI strategy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 October 2013 08:42:52PM 1 point [-]

Letting plants grow their own pesticides for killing of things that eat the plants sounds to me like a bad strategy if you want healthy food.

As a matter of evolutionary biology plants have been doing this for many millions of years and are pretty good at making poisons.