> Our human designs strive to work in many environmental conditions. Many early AI designs, if iterated in the real world, would incorporate local physical cond

> Our human designs strive to work in many environmental conditions. Many early AI designs, if iterated in the real world, would incorporate local physical conditions into their circuits. For example, that fluorescent lamp or fan I'm picking up(from the AI/evolutionary design algorithm's perspective) has great EM waves that could serve as a reliable clock source, eliminating the need for my own. Thus if you move things it would break. This problem may have a relatively simple fix: have two FPGAs – from different manufacturing lots, maybe even different models or brands – each in a different physical location, maybe even on different continents. If the AI or evolutionary algorithm has to evolve something that works on both FPGAs, it will naturally avoid purely local stuff which works on one and not the other, and produce a much more general solution.