Overcoming Bias: No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices
I have made a serious conceptual mistake, adopting darwinian evolution as the default explanation for almost any generational process for the past ten years. The requirements for darwinian evolution to be effective, as enumerated by Eliezer:
- Entities that replicate
- Substantial variation in their characteristics
- Substantial variation in their reproduction
- Persistent correlation between the characteristics and reproduction
- High-fidelity long-range heritability in characteristics
- Frequent birth of a significant fraction of the breeding population
- And all this remains true through many iterations
are not that easily satisfied.