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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by rsynnott on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:15AM (#40075392)
Well, as somebody who likes complaining, I don’t like your new title either; evolution doesn’t ‘invent’ anything, and anthropomorphising it just confuses people (see also generative ai, grumble mutter).
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by isolli on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:23AM (#40075445)
Oh, I agree! But I did not want to make more than one change at a time ;)
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by cies on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:50AM (#40075665)
> evolution doesn’t ‘invent’ anything

Really? I think it kind of does invent. Trial and error. Back propagation. Mutation. Some randomness at conception. Sure it's a personification, but not a bad one.

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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by thfuran on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:25AM (#40075967)
Evolution doesn't do back propagation.
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by arrow7000 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @11:11AM (#40077078)
The evolutionary fitness of a particular adaptation helps spread the genes that causes the adaptation. I think backpropagation is a very apt description for that phenomenon
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by klyrs on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:10PM (#40077689)
That's propagation.
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by cies on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:06AM (#40084417)
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by owlstuffing on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:30PM (#40077943)
There is zero science to back that up, natural selection ≠ evolution.
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