Comment by Terr_

> machines can evolve faster

[Squinty Thor] "Do they though?"

I think it's valuable to challenge this popular sentiment every once-in-a-while. Sure, it's a good poetic metaphor, but when you really start comparing their "lifecycle" and change-mechanisms to the swarming biological nanobots that cover the Earth, a bunch of critical aspects just aren't there or are being done to them rather than by them.

At least for now, these machines mostly "evolve" in the same sense that fashionable textile pants "evolve".