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Desrtopa comments on Open Thread, October 20 - 26, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Desrtopa 22 October 2013 05:52:32AM 3 points [-]

However if I were forced to find something correlated with evolution, I'd probably say complexity.

This doesn't seem to be the case either

Comment author: Lumifer 22 October 2013 05:56:19PM 0 points [-]

Depends on your time frame. Looking at the whole history of life on Earth evolution certainly correlates with complexity, looking at the last few million years, not so much.

I understand the argument about the upper limit of genetic information that can be sustained. I am somewhat suspicious of it because I'm not sure what will happen to this argument if we do NOT assume a stable environment (so the target of the optimization is elusive, it's always moving) and we do NOT assume a single-point optimum but rather imagine a good-enough plateau on which genome could wander without major selection consequences.

But I haven't thought about it enough to form a definite opinion.