It surprises me that we hold such an anachronistic view of evolution -- ie. seeing it as a mechanical process ("only optimizes for survival and replication")

Humans cannot engineer an evolutionary process for consciousness better than nature because we lack a systemic view

The IVF clinic of the future will combine a handful of technologies (the Gattaca stack):

1. In vitro gametogenesis (IvG) - make eggs from skin or blood cells (much less invasive)
2. Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) - choose the embryo that best matches what you want,

Brian Armstrong

It surprises me that we hold such an anachronistic view of evolution -- ie. seeing it as a mechanical process ("only optimizes for survival and replication")

Humans cannot engineer an evolutionary process for consciousness better than nature because we lack a systemic view

https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1907190962125938734

how else should we view evolution? I think that’s the right way to view it, why is this wrong?

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I think it's a good way to view it (as in: it's useful and easy to understand approximation), but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to transcend the evolutionary baggage. Certainly, there are more pressing issues in that regard than just optimizing reproduction.

july

Beauty, perhaps better interpreted as “congruence”, is a proxy for truth

Nature seldom creates a scene that is incongruent 

People on the other hand, can’t help but do so

If you want to create something great, prioritize beauty and its associated emotions - awe, wonder, joy, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/magazine/beauty-evolution-animal.html

In my view, consciousness is primary and one way it expresses itself is through beauty, which itself is a proxy for truth: https://warpcast.com/androidsixteen.eth/0xaa915b8b

Natural selection and other prior theories of evolution originated in the industrial era, lending to a more mechanical view of the processes (and a more brutish view of nature)