From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 13:41:45 MST
Anders Sandberg writes:
> I don't think we will see the Net suddenly waking up to become a god,
> I think we are already seeing the primordial soup where selfish
> packets and computer-memes spread. It will take a few billion
> internet-years for them to evolve into something smart.
Not if you seed it with the computational equivalent of a primate, and
define an environment percolated with neutral filaments through
fitness space.
As to spontaneous emergence, agreed, you will only get primitive
viroids that way. They may crash the net, but they won't transcend.
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