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Scott Alexander · Slate Star Codex · 2020

Studies on Slack

I. Imagine a distant planet full of eyeless animals. Evolving eyes is hard: they need to evolve Eye Part 1, then Eye Part 2, then Eye Part 3, in that order. Each of these requires a separate series…

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An evolutionary thought experiment about eyeless animals makes spare capacity central to understanding how complex improvements become possible.

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