From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 03:23:42 MDT
Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> Samantha Atkins writes:
>
> > If it is postbiological enough then survival of the fittest and "food"
> > and "eating" may be quite irrelevant.
>
> Not if postbiological critters will replicate imperfectly in face of
> limited resources. Which seems a rather safe bet. Darwinian evolution
> is really astonishingly basic.
I imagine their replication could be as perfect as desired and as
mutable as desired. How limited are resources in a post-Singularity
world? About as limited as raw energy and matter. The speed with which
these resources can be gathered and used is real-space/time speed not
computer time. Ah, I see part of your point. The fact there is a time
disparity between AI replication and external resource allocation/usage
makes the computational matrix itself a fertile ground for competition
for limited resources and makes all easily available resources a ground
for competition. Sigh. Is there any hope for a more cooperative
pattern? Or is that only a local group strategy in competition with
other groups?
- samantha
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