army1987 comments on The Wonder of Evolution - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 November 2007 08:49PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 May 2012 07:44:58PM *  2 points [-]

Large amounts of life-designs are highly inefficient, almost as if they were added haphazardly by evolution. The giraffe's nerves which loop all the way from the head down through the neck and then back up again to the head are a good example.

IAWYC, but I've seen pieces of computer code written by humans which do stuff nearly that bad.