Latanius2 comments on Failure By Analogy - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 November 2008 02:54AM

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Comment author: Latanius2 18 November 2008 06:56:53AM 1 point [-]

Analogy might work better for recognizing things already optimized in design space, especially if they are a product of evolution, with common ancestors (4 legs, looks like a lion, so run, even if it has stripes). And we only started designing complicated stuff a few thousand years ago at most...