Such a low-ranking solution as “Everyone have as many kids as possible, then cannibalize the girls” would not be generated in your search process.
Like… “A Modest Proposal”? I would suggest that low-ranking solutions are very often generated and are simply discarded without comment in the vast majority of cases. The only way “efficiency” enters into it comes from the way we start our search for solutions by considering how to adapt already known solutions to similar problems.
This does, in fact, show up in evolution as well. Adapting existing solutions is far more common than inventing something entirely new. Like how the giraffe has the same number of cervical vertebra as (so far as I know) every other four-legged mammal on the planet.
Like… “A Modest Proposal”? I would suggest that low-ranking solutions are very often generated and are simply discarded without comment in the vast majority of cases. The only way “efficiency” enters into it comes from the way we start our search for solutions by considering how to adapt already known solutions to similar problems.
This does, in fact, show up in evolution as well. Adapting existing solutions is far more common than inventing something entirely new. Like how the giraffe has the same number of cervical vertebra as (so far as I know) every other four-legged mammal on the planet.