[PD-dev] Re: Restructuring of CVS/externals

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 08:40:03PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > > > To me, the most compelling reason to abbreviate the triggers is that it's
> > > > the closest thing to making them disappear, among the things that I can do
> > > > without looking like I'm coming straight from the jMaxlavian refugee
> > > > ghetto.
> > > 
> > > Hi! Sometimes intelligent design achieves less optimal results than
> > > evolution.
> > 
> > Sounds wise but ambiguous. What do you want to say?
> 
> I want to say that sometimes intelligently designing a system can
> acheive a less optimal result than a system which is subjected to a
> process of evolution.

Ok, now I'm lost. which part of what we were saying corresponds to what 
you consider to be evolution, and which part corresponds to 
creationism, and why do you say it.

BTW I'm not USAian enough to understand the subtleties of the 
new phrase "intelligent design" vs the traditional term "creationism" so 
please bear with me.

Now that I think of it, maybe you're saying that both options could be
provided and we'd let people decide and let bad features die off. Maybe we
would then find that not only people can't decide themselves, but bad
features don't die off, and if perchance they do, they come back to haunt
us.

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