[ExI] Purified humanity Re: Your Genome Is a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland

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On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Of course that mutational load is a side effect of evolutionary
> optimization. Such a brittle system must be henceforth perpetually
> maintained by manual intervention, or be outcompeted by wild
> type should that chain ever break.
>

As the original article points out, optimization is the wrong word to
use as description.
Arbitrary hacks based on previous hacks is more like it.
Think of computer spaghetti code after a hundred programmers have done
urgent fixes and patches. Much of the code is bypassed by later fixes.
A lot of it no longer works as intended. A lot is no longer needed.
But the program still manages to work somehow. (Though nobody is quite
sure how!).  It's a mess.


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