(September 4, 2012 at 1:49 pm)Red Celt Wrote: How did you get to that, following what I asked? And what would "pass/fail loops" be testing for?That's the amusing bit, nothing in particular and nothing directed, but whatever filtered through any arbitrary set of pass/fail would end up being more suited to whatever those arbitrary pass/fails were. The pass/fails could even be passing circumstances.
Quote: We didn't even establish what we meant by "better".Could be anything, what did you have in mind?
Quote:Random mutations resulting in survivable/unsurvivable traits, non-randomly producing surviving traits. That's your answer for how a robot can produce a "better" robot? I said that we come back in a few generations... not a few million years.I didn't realize that the robots kicked it at the same rate as we did, but okay. The principle remains the same, you can extend or decrease the timeline involved at your leisure.
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