If there are competing groups of agents, then evolution will favor goals
that
promote survival of the group (for example, self sacrifice). If there is
only
one group, then this evolution does not occur.
Why not? The agents are "competing" with the environment (not each other)
and will therefore evolve and get smarter. Any sufficiently smart agent
will realize that it is in it's society's best interest (for the purposes of
fulfilling it's goals -- whatever they are) to have a survival goal.
Therefore, any sufficiently smart agent will GIVE it's society a survival
goal.
You need
competition between groups to evolve strategies to defeat cancer.
Huh? So you claim that a single cooperative group of super-geniuses can't
evolve strategies to defeat cancer unless there is a competing group?
That appears to be yet another blatantly incorrect Mahoneyism (a provably
incorrect *opinion* stated as if it is an established fact).
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