Caledonian2 comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 05 November 2007 04:39:06AM 0 points [-]

Read a biology textbook, darn it. The DNA contents of a sperm have negligible impact on the sperm's ability to penetrate the egg.

Defective sperm - which are more-than-normally likely to be carry screwed-up DNA - is far less likely to reach the egg, and far less likely to penetrate it before a fully functional spermatozoan does. It's a weeding-out process.

As for antler fights, it doesn't *matter* how individuals are removed from the gene pool.

Of course it does! Just not to the maximum-bit-rate argument.

Yes, but they must be balanced by states where it operates more slowly.

No, they mustn't. They can theoretically be kept in a constant non-equilibrium.