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27chaos comments on Surprising examples of non-human optimization - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: 27chaos 18 June 2015 06:16:37PM *  0 points [-]

I like this. I'm interested in almost the opposite, amusingly: what types of situations are there where "planners" (natural or artificial or human) can impose a top down solution that will outperform bottom up processes like evolution?