From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 23:20:02 MDT
Matt Gingell wrote:
>
> J. R. Molloy writes:
>
> > We really can't *know* if a friendly strain of bacteria is likely to eventually
> > evolve into friendly people without actually conducting an experiment along
> > those lines. Plainly, such an experiment with artificial digital life forms
> > would take minutes instead of millenia, so that's not a problem.
> >
> > --J. R.
>
> Plainly, you have a much faster computer than I do.
>
Yep, one of the fastest super-computers on earth is dedicated to doing a
tiny fraction of the number of generations it would take to run this
simulation in alife.
Let's not get sloppy.
- samantha
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