For the system, it's like the particle swarm algorithm (PSO). Well, fine, the system will do fine. But it's really hard on ants. EDIT: Almost all multi-agent e

For the system, it's like the particle swarm algorithm (PSO). Well, fine, the system will do fine. But it's really hard on ants. EDIT: Almost all multi-agent exploratory algorithms have these characteristics: evolution, free-market capitalism. And we all (as the species, as the beneficiaries of the system) benefit, even if 10M sperm died to give us 1K eggs to give us 1 living turtle to get back to the beach to re-spawn. The species will live. The ecosystem will adapt and thrive -- but it is very wasteful in terms of point-probes on the multi-dimensional problem space. 1K:1 or 1M:1 die, to have the one survive, because it found the niche in the problem space. That's all fine and dandy until we realize that each of us are the point-probes. We think that we are better than that. Well, maybe we are. In 1000 years, they will look back and see. EDIT2: > It's as if being an entrepreneur is the end-all, be-all of all careers. It's hard work. It's riddled with failure. It's not for everybody. Well, for the system, it's great. The system searches for it's maximum potential. For the entrepreneur, he's just a point-sample (in one algorithm), or a geodesic field in yours. These things are tried and tossed away as if they are trash if they don't "fit". Nothing wrong with that ... it's as if the universe is using the human geoplex as a hive-mind to achieve something greater. But, we, as individuals, might have opinions about how we want to be treated as agents of this algorithm.