On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:54:45PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote:
Russ,
You say: I'm trying a slightly different tack with Tierra, of artificially
inducing mass extinctions every now and then. I have also tried reducing
parsimony pressure from time to time (I'm not sure what would be the
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:54:45PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote:
Russ,
You say: I'm trying a slightly different tack with Tierra, of
artificially
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One should not confuse economics with biological selection. It would
seem plausible that good economic times might lead to rapid evolution
of economies, such as during the recent
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Subject: [FRIAM] Relaxed Selection, a b-level posting
Russell Standish offered the following question:
What do you think of relaxed selection ?
My inexpert response:
Well, I am uneasy about the concept. When I used to be a teacher of
these
things
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Nicholas Thompson wrote:
The metaphor is terrible because
the time-scale of oscillations of good and bad times in economics is
WAY
too short for the reproductive capacity of the species to respond.
So the
times
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One should not confuse economics with biological selection. It would
seem plausible that good
Phil Henshaw wrote:
We could consider the vast variation in
canine breeds and the fact that breeding selection as an extreme form of
epigenetics has not apparently altered the species they all belong to.
Selection from breeding would mostly be constrained genetics, i.e. a big
and a small dog
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Marcus G. Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Phil Henshaw wrote:
We could consider the vast variation in
canine breeds and the fact that breeding selection as an extreme form of
epigenetics has not apparently altered the species they all belong to.
Selection
Marcus says:
Phil Henshaw wrote:
We could consider the vast variation in
canine breeds and the fact that breeding selection as an extreme form of
epigenetics has not apparently altered the species they all belong to.
Selection from breeding would mostly be constrained genetics, i.e. a
David Green proposed somewhat similar ideas back in around
2000. Someone else (I forget who now) mentioned it again in a slightly
different form within the last year in an Artificial Life article. I
tried running an experiment implementing this idea using Tierra, but
have found that I need to
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I'll look up David Green. There have been several directions that people
have taken to the fast/slow
Russell Standish offered the following question:
What do you think of relaxed selection ?
My inexpert response:
Well, I am uneasy about the concept. When I used to be a teacher of these
things, students LOVED the idea that some ages and places are harsh and
some are mellow, and that
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Nicholas Thompson wrote:
The metaphor is terrible because
the time-scale of oscillations of good and bad times in economics is WAY
too short for the reproductive capacity of the species to respond. So the
times are sort of independent of the reproduction of the species.
Perhaps not..
One should not confuse economics with biological selection. It would
seem plausible that good economic times might lead to rapid evolution
of economies, such as during the recent Internet bubble for instance,
but not that it would have any influence on us at the genetic level.
The sort of idea
, clear active individual behavior in a passive
environment.
Phil
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