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Decades ago I read about a simulation aiming to evolve creatures that could walk, or one day run. The fitness function that determined how many offspring you ge
by raldi 5y ago
Decades ago I read about a simulation aiming to evolve creatures that could walk, or one day run. The fitness function that determined how many offspring you get was “maximum speed ever attained in your life”.
They let it run for a while and came back to find all the creatures had evolved into extremely tall, thin stalks that would tip over and never move again. The top would be moving very fast before it hit the ground.
- scyzoryk_xyz 5y agoOur own human intelligence could also seen this kind of side effect. The purpose of it being for us to be better at hunting other animals and gathering extra food. Instead, in just several hundred thousand years we’ve built a bunch of ‘buildings’ and we managed to throw the entire ecosystem out of balance.