Ah. It wouldn't protect its starting code. It would happily modify that in its children too. I'd have hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of evolutionary dead-ends to every 'success' but as I wrote in the comment. Even success could mean failure. :) What would _really_ be successful would be the one in a billion modifications.
It's a spectacularly bad idea. In order to create a new complex form of life, you'd almost necessarily destroy most of humanities computer achievements.
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Date: 2008-08-21 11:24 pm (UTC)It's a spectacularly bad idea. In order to create a new complex form of life, you'd almost necessarily destroy most of humanities computer achievements.