Ian Parker , spinning off into fantasy, wrote:
:
arwin talked about natural selection survival of the fittest. Let us
:suppose we use VN machnies to construct two siege colonies. Both are
:at war with each other. Eventually both sides decide that they can
:maximize their strength by letting AI evolve strategies for the defeat
f the other. The 2 VN mchines are therefore attempting to destroy one
:and other. The fittest will, of course, survive. Each machine feels
:that its chances of survival would be maximized if it gave up carrying
:the humans on whose behalf it was fighting the war.
:

Why would it reach that conclusion?

:
:Eventually a robotic ecosystem will evolve, but it will be one that
:excludes humans.
:

No such 'ecosystem' will evolve because the primary evolutionary agent
(man) has (in your delusions) been removed (for unspecified reasons).


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only stupid."
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