Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript

Re:Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript by andrewla on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:28PM (#23330901)

I gave the tweet as an example of a more general trend. The linked demonstration shows a similar shallowness (the focus on mechanism) which is what brought it to mind.

On the other point, I don’t even understand what it means to breed for the trait of “variety”. It’s a collective, not an individual trait. If you allow individuals to practice eugenics by selecting their mates through mutual assent then that works, but that’s not eugenics.

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Re:Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript by sgillen on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:33PM (#23330935)

Fair enough..

I was thinking of a hypothetical eugenic society, where they could let (force?) everyone to breed every X years. Then they could try to optimize that entire batch of mates to optimize whatever traits they chose plus some measure of variety in the gene pool. Would that satisfy your definition of eugenics?

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