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Comment author: torekp 30 September 2014 11:23:34PM 3 points [-]

These are all good points, and I think you're understating the case on (at least) the third one. An EA search can afford to kill off most of its individuals for the greater good; biological evolution cannot tolerate a substantial hit to individual fitness for the sake of group fitness. An EA search can take reproduction for granted, tying it directly to performance on an intelligence test.