Houshalter comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 November 2007 04:54PM

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 04 November 2007 05:35:08PM -2 points [-]

"Surely the cumulative power of natural selection is beyond human intelligence?"

Even if it was, why would you want to use it? Evolution has thoroughly screwed over more human beings than every brutal dictator who ever lived, and that's just *humans*, never mind the several billion extinct species which litter our planet's history.

Comment author: Houshalter 12 March 2013 08:18:09PM 2 points [-]

Nuclear technology has been used to kill hundreds of thousands of people, it's still a useful form of energy.