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“The principal finding was that about seven hours is the optimal duration of sleep,” he writes in his book.

That's seen as a system 3 problem, coordinating competing demands to achieve an optimal outcome, which is almost always about winning the next election.

“A hyper-optimized species that can only survive in one environment will get wiped out if that environment changes,” he notes, and “lasting species are defined not by optimal solutions, but by ‘good enough’ ones.

While great in theory, the issue is that optimal design is difficult to predict, especially given Earth’s changing atmospheric composition.

There’s plenty of room for Rams headquarters at Hollywood Park, but that’s not optimal for multiple reasons.