oldmanintheskydidntdoit
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Gordon Mullings
| Quote | 5] Partitioned search and weasel are different beats!
Not so fast, pardnuh!
Up to 2000, the information the public has had in hand was the showcased runs of 1986, and the description of cumulative targetted search. on this premise, it is reasonable — thus legitimate — to construct a weasel that uses the obvious mechanism, explicit latching.
Subsequent to that time, we have had statements from Mr Dawkins and co that Weasel did not explicitly latch at any stage — but mo credible c. 1986 code. (And BTW, commenter Apollos on this site has shown that explicitly latched weasels can be programed to show reversions. ONLY CREDIBLE CODE WILL BE DEMONSTRATIVE, IN THIS LIGHT.)
We have accepted the testimony on the presumption of charity, and have demonstrated that latching is feasible on an IMPLICIT basis. (Note, this makes no difference to the already discussed point that weasel demonstrates the power of active information, not chance variation and natural selection based on complex function.)
An explicitly latched weasel is a legitimate interpretation of the information given. And that is part of the point of the EIL demonstration: many weasels are possible and they give various patterns of behaviour, sometimes convergent, sometimes divergent. And in particular, implicit latching is a point of convergence between explicitly latched partitioned search and proximity reward search.
6] What about the BBC Horizon 1987 program?
This has often been held to demonstrate that Weasel as originally coded did not latch. Of course, it now is apparent that the winking effect is possibly due to the video highlighting the members of generations, not the generational champions.
A result that — as was acknowledged above by the commenter who raised it — is entirely compatible with: IMPLICIT LATCHING.
Beyond that, the gap between 1986 and 1987 together with the demonstrated impact of shifting parameters on a proximity reward algorithm without EXPLICIT latching — we can get latching, quasi-latching and far from latched behaviour — indicates that the 1987 run does not ground a claim that Weasel c 1986 as showcased did not latch and ratchet to the target in a cumulative process. |
Hahahahah
EDIT: | Quote | | many weasels are possible and they give various patterns of behaviour |
hahahaha.
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I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies".
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if there are even critical flaws in Gauger’s work, the evo mat narrative cannot stand
Gordon Mullings
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