What do you mean, “predict”? It has been empirically observed, a lot.
cousin made the claim that we can only say something about evolution that happened in the past. I say that we can confidently predict that increasing antibiotica resistance among bacteria will continue in the future.
Huh? It doesn’t work like that at all. For one thing, the “environment” isn’t stable.
Firstly describing complex system in a ew words is seldom completely accurate. The question is whether it’s a useful mental model for thinking about it.
In this case the idea I wanted to communicate is that it’s very useful to think about the speed of iterations and the competitive advantage that a specis gets by having as advantage of hundred of millions of iterations over their competitors.
The enviroment doesn’t have to be stable for the argument that I made. In changing enviroments a spezies with faster iterations adapts faster. A lot of genetic adaptions are also about housekeeping genes that are useful in most enviroments.
What do you mean, “predict”? It has been empirically observed, a lot.
Huh? It doesn’t work like that at all. For one thing, the “environment” isn’t stable.
cousin made the claim that we can only say something about evolution that happened in the past. I say that we can confidently predict that increasing antibiotica resistance among bacteria will continue in the future.
Firstly describing complex system in a ew words is seldom completely accurate. The question is whether it’s a useful mental model for thinking about it. In this case the idea I wanted to communicate is that it’s very useful to think about the speed of iterations and the competitive advantage that a specis gets by having as advantage of hundred of millions of iterations over their competitors.
The enviroment doesn’t have to be stable for the argument that I made. In changing enviroments a spezies with faster iterations adapts faster. A lot of genetic adaptions are also about housekeeping genes that are useful in most enviroments.