Sure, you can see that selection pressure samples more intensively in the lower quantiles of energy, just not close to the ground state. The goal I had was to find the ground state, not just to give the appearance of one. Stepping back, I claim what conservatives want is to give the appearance of fitness (and justify the current social order), not to achieve greatness for its own sake.
On 1/2/19, 12:21 PM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: The reason I asked was your statement "selection pressure has accomplished nothing". What I would be looking for is a more comprehensive description of the solution space showing selection as selecting a *subset* of properties/dimensions of the space. So, while selection may not have pushed the population very effectively in that subset, it may have changed the population's character in the whole space. So, a better statement would be "selection pressure didn't accomplish what it was intended to accomplish." Right? > On 1/2/19 7:44 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > In this case, I would argue that selection pressure has accomplished nothing -- conservatism doesn't work if the goal is to create the most fit individuals. The mean moves, if you care about that. But the very best solutions are nearly the same, and neither have come close to the optimal. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
