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Humans have a history of occasionally choosing bad fitness functions that predates computers, for example look at the awful things we've done to persian cats or
by antisemiotic 7y ago
Humans have a history of occasionally choosing bad fitness functions that predates computers, for example look at the awful things we've done to persian cats or chihuahua dogs.
- ben_w 7y agoWell yes. Also, the fact that brains (not even just human ones) influence the real world’s organic evolutionary fitness functions does make it somewhat impossible to perfectly replicate in a computer. Fortunately my point has no dependency on any specific fitness function, natural or programmed — my argument has been that the original claim “We can observe that cells/DNA are programmed to adapt to local changes; we have no idea how they make sudden jumps for a more efficient design;” totally misrepresented evolution, that in fact evolution totally can make sudden-looking jumps (a point which in retrospect I don’t think I properly justified, even if my list of examples was intended that way), and that it’s trivial to demonstrate this by writing a genetic algorithm.