> Like, if its told to reproduce in the sandbox, it doesn't benefit by being on many computers? It could benefit by comunicating with other copies by some hidd

> Like, if its told to reproduce in the sandbox, it doesn't benefit by being on many computers? It could benefit by comunicating with other copies by some hidden channels (temeprature/timing/sounds/noise on network/whatever) and cheating on tests and thus achieving better fitness. BTW Stanisław Lem wrote a short story about this scenario in 1961 :) https://books.google.be/books?id=1DNVzphAHD0C&pg=PA39&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.be/books?id=1DNVzphAHD0C&pg=PA39&hl=en#... BTW2 Lem was awesome, I've read it when I was 15 and thought I understood it well enough. Only now I can appreciate some finer points like this stab at Haskell ;) "These boxes contain perfect brains. Do you know wherein lies their perfection?" "No." I admited. "Their perfection lies in the fact that they serve no purpose, are absolutely, totaly useless - in short, they are Leibnitzian monads, which I have brought into being and clad in matter" EDIT - this was not the story I had in mind, there was another one where simulated universes started to communicate but I can't remember which it was.