Re:Software designers pick the path, not just the destination
by magicalhippo on Friday June 21, 2024 @09:01PM
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And on the flip side, a sufficient abundance of resources and/or lack of predators mean non-optimal species can procreate, and thus find other local optima.
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Re:Software designers pick the path, not just the destination
by marginalia_nu on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:56AM
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In terms of evolution, the fitness of a species is defined by its ability to reproduce. In the circumstances you describe, selection pressure exists for the species that can reproduce the fastest. Predators or resource constraints are not a requirement for evolution.
Re:Software designers pick the path, not just the destination
by magicalhippo on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:25AM
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> In the circumstances you describe, selection pressure exists for the species that can reproduce the fastest.
My point was there's no pressure without constraints. A faster-reproducing species will only apply a pressure if starts exhausting a resource or similar.