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Matt Kielty

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1691 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And then they're like, okay.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

I mean, the problem, okay, like a computer needs, you can't just say computer make a cool thing.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

You have to ask a computer a question.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And you get the sense that they just did not know what question to ask the computer.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

They didn't have a good question to answer that evolutionary theorists would care about.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

So like for five days, they don't know what to do.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And then right before, it's like the last day, Ralph is like, what if we have the computer simulate evolution at random?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And why would they do that?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Well, because evolution, you know... Is not a random process.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Darwin established it's like it's small incremental change over long periods of time.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

But it's not just that, right?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

It favors certain things.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And it favors like adaptive traits.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

The fittest survive.