Re: Seeking extropian opinion: GIMPS vs SETI?

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sat May 15 1999 - 19:35:08 MDT


Anders Sandberg writes:
 
> Distributed genetic algorithms to try to find good solutions to
> problems? But the set of interesting problems with easily calculated
> fitness functions may be small; most of the really interesting
> problems (like AI or making good search agents) have rather diffuse
> fitness.

Why not utilizing open-ended evolution? It would be rather difficult
to code, though.



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