BillB
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Joined: Aug. 2009
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MathGrrl: | Quote | | Tierra is about the simplest environment possible, given that RAM and time are the only two resources available. Programs live or die based on how well they use those resources. Interestingly, even in such a simple environment we see parasites evolve, and resistance to parasites, and “hyper parasites” that prey on the new programs. |
PaV: | Quote | | This type of programming seems harmless enough. But the devil is in the details. Viz., when you say that the programs “live or die based on how well they use those resources,” just what, exactly, determines “how well” they’re doing. Why kind of a comparison is involved? And who decided that this comparison is a good one to make? |
Presumably the same kind of agent that decides if a programme running under windows or linux is useful?
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