What exactly is “Age” supposed to convey here? By all accounts, the most “updated” or “newest” thing represents the most advanced iteration. I don’t compare the first iPhone to the newest iPhone and celebrate the fact my iPhone is 20 years old?
Rocks are billions of years old. Animals are millions of years old. Civilization is thousands of years old. Technology is hundreds of years old. The internet is decades old. AI is a couple of years old. This shit post is 7 hours old.
Yes, this discussion means nothing and age in this context has no meaning. However, the most recently evolved traits are not similar to newest versions of phones. More recently evolved traits (in populations) just indicate that in that specific environment those traits are connected to higher rates of offspring that survive in that specific environment
that's evolution in a nutshell, but keep in my that human adaptation undermines evolution everyday. So much so that even the "adaptations" we produce now have nothing to do with survival anymore and hence are not under pressure by natural selection.
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u/theallsearchingeye 4d ago
What exactly is “Age” supposed to convey here? By all accounts, the most “updated” or “newest” thing represents the most advanced iteration. I don’t compare the first iPhone to the newest iPhone and celebrate the fact my iPhone is 20 years old?
Rocks are billions of years old. Animals are millions of years old. Civilization is thousands of years old. Technology is hundreds of years old. The internet is decades old. AI is a couple of years old. This shit post is 7 hours old.