Darwin 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
of 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.

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


- Ian Parker