<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Classic case of 'good enough for who it's for'. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:17 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:30 AM The Avantguardian via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
It is true that deleterious mutations are more common than beneficial ones. It is the price that life pays for searching fitness-space for greener pastures on the other side of the valley of death. That being said, automotive engines display a different sort of complexity than living systems. The complexity of the car engine is imposed upon it a top-down fashion. Because of that, the engine's parts are very specialized and essential. This has the effect of making the engine brittle and failure-prone. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, engines are brittle because that's the way we design them. We don't design them to last a million miles or to be inherently redundant, we design them to be relatively robust, inexpensive, and efficient. Would you pay $200,000 for a car that got 15 mpg, performed like a Camry, and had an drive train that was unlikely to ever need repair? Engineering is about trade-offs. Manufacturers know what buyers will buy and design their products to meet that demand.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>
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