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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 157 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (49 children)

If you ever study biochemistry, it leaves you absolutely in awe. The best engineering we can do is pretty amazing, we have computers and airplanes and all this magic stuff, but the stuff in you is a hundred, a thousand times better made. It's stunning. Comparatively speaking, it is perfect. And that's only the stuff we understand. The stuff in your brain, we do not.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Natural selection is essentially just a massively parallel Monte Carlo optimization algorithm that's been running for billions of years. It's so simple yet produces such amazing complexity.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Give it a few more billion and we'll finally have an intelligence, that's not hell bent on destroying itself.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

That was one of the better QoS settings on my router back in the day.

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