Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

William A. Dembski

Stichwörter: science biology balance perfection intelligent-design id optimisation optimization stephen-jay-gould

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World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Stichwörter: logic euphemism optimisation

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