Re: [Epic] First Epic 40k battle

From: Alan Brain <aebrain_at_...>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 02:56:48 -0700

duckrvr_at_... wrote:
>
> At 02:18 PM 5/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Those systems that survive get to breed. But sexually, which means that
> >the offspring contain 50% of the rules of one parent, and the other 50%
> >from the other parent. This causes a MASSIVE speed-up of evolution
>
> Ah. Cool. That's an idea that would not have occurred to me.

Yes, I heard it first proposed as applied to Blackboard systems (where
rules get proposed/disposed). But the idea of creating Genetic Sexual
Animal Systems and putting them through a hostile environment is my own.
FWIW.

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