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[–] razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Optimization was never the goal. It just has to function well enough for a sufficient portion of the species to reproduce.

[–] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 33 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Literally the evolutionary equivalent of "eh, good enough"

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Evolution is an optimisation process, just a very slow, wasteful and stupid one. It finds local optima which it usually gets stuck in.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago

evolution is the epitome of "good enough, ship it!"