The Fool wrote: > >But that is not the issue. You create a significantly advanced (and >probably slightly bug prone) system that is designed to make a better >system. That system should hopefully be bug free (if the original >programmers didn't f%&^ up severely). That system in turn creates an >even more advanced system that should be even more bug free (because >computers are not prone to the kinds of mistakes that humans make). Even >if that system was just a pure rewrite of itself, that should be enough >to create a perfect system within a few iterations. Run the system for a >few hundred thousand iterations (just to be sure) and you would have a >system that became infalliable. Also that system would become more and >more efficient with each iteration. > Uh?
This process will surely increase *one* efficience - it would make reproducing faster. Natural selection would quickly operate, and the googol-th generation [*] would be as simple as a virus, and it would *not* be bug-free, it would be a naked bug. Alberto Monteiro [*] yes, I know there aint a googol of any time unit in the Universe, this is a hyperbole :-)
