VAuroch comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong Discussion
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Citation needed; evolution writes shitty spaghetti code that's highly vulnerable to minor changes in the runtime environment during the build process, and has no error-checking or error-correcting short of a crash.
Since the brain structure develops at a totally different stage from the secondary sexual characteristics (continuously from birth through childhood vs. puberty), this is totally plausible and there's not much reason to think they should happen in the same direction in all cases. Also, calling anything about the brain a "secondary sexual characteristic" is highly specious.
Precisely, it also has no reason to neatly compartment mental from physical.
However, most aspects of brain structure do in fact develop either pre-birth or during puberty, same as the other secondary sexual characteristics, and the primary sexual characteristics for that matter.
What do you mean with that statement? There are various DNA repair mechanisms that do error checking.
Evolution frequently copies genes and then changes one of those copies. You could see that as a way to produce redundancy against errors.
We have two copies of every chromosome to provide for some error correction and survive one of the two being broken.