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- From: TMakinen
- Subject: Re: Laying a trap
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.152301.826@nic.funet.fi>
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- References: <1992Nov18.133247.8546@city.cs>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:23:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.133247.8546@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- writes:
- >Would it be possible to subject ChessMover to random
- >mutations, so that eventually you evolve ChessPlayer,
- >a chess program which plays very well, say at master
- >level?
-
- Why not? If I were to make a chess player, I would probably do it just that
- way.
-
- >Lets say you have a small calculator program,
- >like the toy ones which pop up in some windowing front
- >ends. Would it be possible to apply random mutations to
- >Calculator until it evolves into Spreadsheet?
-
- Yes it is. Still it is highly improbable.
- There!, you say. But you do not take into account that any goal is highly
- improbable. But the evolution has no goals. A procaryote does not think: "gee
- it's gonna be cool to be a human". The key word is opporTUNISM. So probably the
- calculator does not evolve into Spreadsheet but something quite different. That
- is just what evo says. After all, we have different species at different
- continents.
-
- Teemu
-