2008/7/2 Abram Demski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do you assign credit to programs that are good at generating good > children?
I never directly assign credit, apart from the first stage. The rest of the credit assignment is handled by the vmprograms, er, programming. > Particularly, could a program specialize in this, so that it > doesn't do anything useful directly but always through making highly > useful children? As the parent controls the code of its offspring, it could embed code in its offspring to pass a small portion of the credit they get back to it. They would have to be careful how much to skim off so the offspring could still thrive. Will ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com