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Evolution is "change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations" (Wikipedia). For posts about machine learning look here.

Related: Biology, Evolutionary Psychology,

The sequence, The Simple Math of Evolution provides a good introduction to LessWrong thinking about evolution....

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Posts tagged Evolution
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131Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
33
5
179An Alien God
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
162
5
110Evolving to Extinction
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
44
5
98The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
89
5
85Problems in evolutionary psychology
Kaj_Sotala
13y
102
4
161Evolution of ModularityΩ
johnswentworth
4y
Ω
12
4
147Studies On Slack
Scott Alexander
3y
34
4
69Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
26
4
57Analogies and General Priors on IntelligenceΩ
riceissa, Sammy Martin
2y
Ω
12
4
38The innocent gene
Joe Carlsmith
2y
3
4
7A common misconception about the evolution of viruses
mukashi
1y
15
3
320There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
eukaryote
2y
53
3
88Evolutionary Psychology
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
40
3
87Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
68
3
77The heritability of human values: A behavior genetic critique of Shard Theory
geoffreymiller
8mo
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