Sunday, June 09, 2019

Red Queen


“Survival of the Fittest” suggests a level of knowledge in advance. This is hindsight bias. Normally there is a base level of fitness, and then it is just those who have the specific survival skill required for the randomly selected sorting event. The world is complex, ambiguous, and random. We can work on our base fitness. We can be prepared for a variety of sorting events. If something happens that 95% wipes you out, you want to be in a position to rebuild from that 5%. “The Red Queen” principle in Biology is that evolution is more about running just to stay in the same place, “organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to survive while pitted against ever-evolving opposing organisms in a constantly changing environment.


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