--- "J Storrs Hall, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The simple intuition from evolution in the wild doesn't apply here, though. > If > I'm a creature in most of life's history with a superior mutation, the fact > that there are lots of others of my kind with inferior ones doesn't hurt > me -- in fact it helps, since they make worse competitors. But on the > internet, there are intelligent creatures gunning for you, and a virus or > worm lives mostly by stealth. Thus your stupider siblings are likely to give > your game away to people your improvement might otherwise have fooled.
In the same way that cowpox confers an immunity to smallpox. > And detrimental mutations greatly outnumber beneficial ones. It depends. Eukaryotes mutate more intelligently than prokaryotes. Their mutations (by mixing large snips of DNA from 2 parents) are more likely to be beneficial than random base pair mutations. > > On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:05:55 pm, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > > The real danger is this: a program intelligent enough to understand > software > > would be intelligent enough to modify itself. It would be a simple change > for > > a hacker to have the program break into systems and copy itself with small > > changes. Some of these changes would result in new systems that were more > > successful at finding vulnerabilities, reproducing, and hiding from the > > infected host's owners, even if that was not the intent of the person who > > launched it. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=48338251-885205
