If there are no tradeoffs to actions/feedback loops, then agents in a system can not make optimization/fitness decisions and evolution does not occur.
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:02:09 PDT, Mark Seery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
thing depending on your view). Put another way, if the criminal justice system
had the same level of effectiveness at protecting physical assets, I wonder
whether civilization as we know it would exist.
If you want to take it in that direction, we have a case where "the market" decided that locks weren't needed on doors in a high-crime area of town. OK, so maybe the crime rate was still low when the door was installed - there's been a lot of delay and negligence in installing said locks.
