On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:58:37PM +0000, Russell Wallace wrote: > I spent a lot of time on every known variant of that idea and some > AFAIK hitherto unknown ones, before coming to the conclusion that I > had been simply fooling myself with wishful thinking; it's the > perpetual motion machine of our field. Admittedly biology did it, but
Ah, it took you a while to see it ;) > even with a whole planet for workspace it took four billion years and > "I don't know about you gentlemen, but that's more time than I'm > prepared to devote to this enterprise". When we try to program that You don't need the entire four billion years since you don't have to start from scratch (animals, ahem), and you can put things on fast-forward, and select the fitness function for a heavy bias towards intelligence. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
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