Peter_de_Blanc comments on Cynicism in Ev-Psych (and Econ?) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 11 February 2009 07:37:34PM 2 points [-]

nazgulnarsil, the organisms themselves are not hill-climbing algorithms; an organism doesn't move from its place on the hill. Natural selection is the hill-climbing algorithm.