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All evidence suggests God is an adherent of the Worse is Better design philosophy.
Like someone playing a piano concerto with 10 fingers. That's such a terrible design. Dawkins would have made the humans with 12 fingers.
So it's evolutions fault now that a lot of people are sitting around all day long?
> And to add insult to injury, the width of a woman’s pelvis hasn’t changed for some 200,000 years, keeping our brains from growing larger.
As if increasing something like the pelvis wouldn't have detrimental consequences in other parts of the life.
> A man’s life-giving organs hang vulnerably outside the body.
So where are the statistics that show that this is a problem to begin with? I don't know anybody who got his family jewels ripped off accidentally - technically it could happen of course.
This whole list is ridiculous. The human body is not a buffet where you can take some of this and some of that. It's all interconnected mechanically and physiologically.
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Sitting on my desk right now is a long-handled object with a heavy mass at one end, just like a hammer. But the heavy mass pivots in relation to the handle, the handle is ergonomically crafted in the opposite direction from a hammer, and it's covered in buttons. If you try to evaluate the design as a hammer, it's obviously a terrible design -- but it's a pretty good joystick (good enough for me to use, as the 12th be…
Since the subject is the human body, Descent was great, but it caused me major "motion sickness" (not sure what's the correct term)
That's the correct term. It's also called "kinetosis" -- it's basically when your eyes and the rest of your body disagree about the way you're moving, and your brain freaks out. (Going back to the "design" question -- we don't know why the brain freaks out, or whether there's a benefit to it, so it's hard to evaluate whether it's actually a good system or not.)
Some people have reported significant improvement by playing with higher resolution, a wider field of view, different textures, or (with VR devices like the Oculus Rift) some sort of persistent viewpoint (like a fake nose).
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You could also make the "full tank condition" painfull, without making draining it pleasurable. Shouldn't lead to addiction, and would work as well.
That would only work if you wanted the organism to always reach a full tank, or near full tank, before taking the action. I'd wager that's a non-ideal situation. Think about the times you've reached a completely full bladder...not a good position to be in. So you have a combo. Taking a whiz is pleasurable, so you do it when you can. But if you get over full, you get a nice zap of discomfort to let you know you're in…
It's basically how it works right now, no need for messing with positive reinforcement.
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Like someone playing a piano concerto with 10 fingers. That's such a terrible design. Dawkins would have made the humans with 12 fingers.
Resulting in 12 Commandments instead of 10, and base-12 numeral system? :)
I think the biggest flaw is the location of the entertainment center next to sewer system.
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I believe you're wrong. Take german and french cars. One of them, won't say which, are better designed than the others. To say that a plan is NOT designed because it's flawed is like calling names on a programmer because he uses Java. You don't refute ID by showing some sub-optimal function in an animal body plan, firstly because ID doesn't claim everything is optimal. ID implies intentionality, but does not and can…
>I believe you're wrong. Take german and french cars. One of them, won't say which, are better designed than the others. To say that a plan is NOT designed because it's flawed Which is why that wasn't the argument. Both French and German cars have evidence of design (non-local improvements over earlier transportation), and both clear and garbled speech through a telephone have evidence of an intelligent agent behind…
[feature request] What about the inability to selectively serialize memory and put it into sperm / egg? I mean, I get human long term memory is probably relatively new and gene serialization is as old as time, but it would be incredibly helpful if we could serialize even a little bit of our memories and experiences into our next generation. It would avoid tons of repeat learning every generation needs to figure out (…