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- From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Laying a trap
- Keywords: Computer program, random, mutation, chess
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.105734.27645@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 10:57:34 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.133247.8546@city.cs>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Nov18.133247.8546@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- >I would like to pose a couple of questions and gauge the
- >reactions of evolutionists (and creationists if any are
- >reading). As computer programs are flavour of the month..
- >
- >1
- >Lets say there is a computer program which `knows' the
- >legal moves of chess - lets call it ChessMover.
- >ChessMover plays very poor chess because its moves are
- >made at random. But it does play very fast. ChessMover
- >is small, compact and extremely efficient. But it plays
- >bad chess because it has not been designed with any
- >chess playing algorithms at all.
- >
- >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?
-
- This has been covered.
-
- >
- >2
- >For those of you who are not game fans, but more business
- >oriented:
- >Consider a spreadsheet program such as Lotus123 or
- >QuattroPro. 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?
-
- No, unless people selected 'for surviral' only those which look more and
- more like a spreadsheet. It _would_ evolve into something completely
- different.
-
- Your suffering from the same delusion all creationists suffer, that
- evolution has to have a target, a purpose (that is, human beings).
-
- Tero Sand
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