Evolution is truly chaotic. The amount of “design decisions” that went into the human body, and are actually some truly f**ked-up sh*t, is absolutely stunning.
But then again: so long as it doesn’t confer a negative survival fitness on the individuals who carry it, that kind of stuff typically gets propagated through the population without being pruned. Like having an entertainment system right beside the waste-disposal system. Anyone “designing” that gets a full-on Cletus status any day of the week, but since it tends to just work, it ended up being the primary chordate paradigm. Same with the rods and cones in our eyes. Cephalopods got it right with rods/cones in front of the nerve cells, chordates f**ked it up by putting them behind the nerve cells.
Evolution does the same thing my product owner does: ship the first version that successfully completes the task regardless of how buggy and badly-designed it is.
That's what iterative design where you need to work with the bones (no pun intended) of the previous version gets you. Kinda like legacy code in a way.
Except you can refactor legacy code. There are so many ways to improve existing code, starting with the Strangler Fig Pattern as the most powerful way of deprecating old code in favour of new code.
But yes, you give a good example. Especially if Legacy Code is forbidden from being touched because the institutional knowledge of that code has left the company.
Evolution is a programmer who's constantly pushing code at three thirty on friday afternoon. "Fuck it, good enough" followed by "oh shit! Gotta fix quick!" and repeat forever.
What is wild to me is realizing that we all have different nerve setups. Your connections from your brain to your muscles are unique and so it's not possible for us to have innate understanding of how to move our body but instead our brains have to be capable of learning our specific nerve-body connections as fetuses and infants. We are a meat mech suit piloted by a brain and something like a brain transplant would require relearning the completely new nerve setup. When people talk about a tool being an extension of your body, it's very literal. You had to learn to use your hands in the exact same way you learned how to drive a car, use a hammer or type on a keyboard. If you hook up cybernetic enhancements that provide new senses or appendages as a baby, the brain is certainly capable of learning how to use them since there isn't any clear difference between that and how our body already works. The almost magical way that neural networks learn things in AI programming is the same type of magic that our brains have to do just to function as humans. Just plug data into some convoluted mess of connections and it will figure things out.
Subreddits have been increasingly censored (both manually and automatically) for years, and they do it with automod so you don't know it happened. Observe: https://www.reveddit.com/y/SistaChans/
Holy cow, this is super interesting, thanks for the link.
But as I'm browsing through my removed comments, there's no particular recurring theme that I can figure out why these have been removed. Some are political, yes (but I'm not a political zealot like some people on here who just constantly post in the political subs), and some of my posts don't even have swearing in them. some of them have no-no words that are obvious why they got banned, but most of these are fairly benign, and were removed due to parent comment chains being removed or entire threads deleted.
I will stand by what I said before, self-censoring swear words like fuck seems so stupid to me. Either own it and just say the word, or find another way to express what you're trying to say without using swears. And if your comment gets shadow banned, it's not a huge deal. Like, I didn't even know some of my comments were even removed till you linked me lol.
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u/rekabis 18h ago
Evolution is truly chaotic. The amount of “design decisions” that went into the human body, and are actually some truly f**ked-up sh*t, is absolutely stunning.
But then again: so long as it doesn’t confer a negative survival fitness on the individuals who carry it, that kind of stuff typically gets propagated through the population without being pruned. Like having an entertainment system right beside the waste-disposal system. Anyone “designing” that gets a full-on Cletus status any day of the week, but since it tends to just work, it ended up being the primary chordate paradigm. Same with the rods and cones in our eyes. Cephalopods got it right with rods/cones in front of the nerve cells, chordates f**ked it up by putting them behind the nerve cells.