(Those two had, specifically, asked an automatic result-filtering algorithm to select that fleshling of the highest discernible intelligence class up to measurement noise, whose Internet traces suggested the greatest ability to quickly adapt to being seized by aliens without disabling emotional convulsions. And if this was, itself, an odd sort of request-filter by fleshling standards—liable to produce strange and unexpected correlations to its oddness—neither of those two aliens had any way to know that.)
My read was that natural human variation plus a few dozen bits of optimization was sufficient explanation.
My read was that natural human variation plus a few dozen bits of optimization was sufficient explanation.