fubarobfusco comments on Open Thread, May 11 - May 17, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 11 May 2015 08:55:00PM 0 points [-]

For that matter, a world in which it is impossible for an organism to become better at surviving by modeling its environment (i.e. learning) is one in which intelligence can't evolve.

(And a world in which it is impossible for one organism to be better at surviving than another organism, is one in which evolution doesn't happen at all; indeed, life wouldn't happen.)