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Re:The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality by Retra on Sunday May 01, 2016 @07:57PM (#11608437)
Here's the argument as far as I can tell:

"Assume your fitness function is correct. Now assume it doesn't match reality. Therefore, your fitness function is incorrect, and thus fitness functions are useless."

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Re:The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality by ricknew on Sunday May 01, 2016 @08:09PM (#11608482)
> thus fitness functions are useless."

or perhaps: thus fitness functions should be taken seriously, but not literally?

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