• @Carrolade
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    -666 months ago

    Get that randomized “trial and error” crap out of here. Everyone knows nobody and nothing ever uses trial and error, because it can’t deliver results.

    • @workerONE
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      6 months ago

      Genetic mutation is always occurring. It’s not trial and error, there is no intent to do anything. You make it sound like a function but it seems like more of a failure to me.

    • @MotoAsh
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      6 months ago

      Evolution works like a tree’s structure branches over time. That’s why it’s always animated like that. It is NOT that everything gets expressed and then gets tested. It is that the current thing “alive” is changing. It seems crazy now only because you’re seeing the veeeeerry complicated leaves at the ends of very complicated branches. Branches that have mostly ended by now.

      You know what happens to animals with unsurvivable mutations? They die. All the time. Even humans with unsurvivable mutations happen ALL THE TIME.

      That’s why it’s ridiculous to outlaw abortion: Bad things randomly happen all the time, because it’s a complicated process with LOTS of areas that can go wrong. It goes wrong all the time. The body has mechanisms to fix a lot of “wrongness”, but macro-level bad stuff still happens all the time.

      The same thing happens on a species level over many survivable generations.

      It IS basically “trial and error”, but trial and error in a VERY complicated and dynamic system after a very, very long time, currently stemming from the complicated results of that system.

      You cannot dismiss the system just because one aspect confuses you when removed from context…

    • @Seleni
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      16 months ago

      By any chance did you drop an /s?

      • @Carrolade
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        36 months ago

        I never use sarcasm markers, if people don’t get it that’s fine. I rather thought that saying trial and error is never attempted because it can’t work was sufficiently outrageous to make it obvious, but I suppose not.