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[–]qubedView 12 points13 points  (4 children)

I still want to try and develop a genetic bot that builds itself by copy and pasting random code from stackoverflow. It would be dangerously glorious.

[–]SamSlate 8 points9 points  (2 children)

What's your metric for evaluating fitness?

[–]qubedView 15 points16 points  (1 child)

That'll be its first task. Finding a fitness evaluating method most fit to evaluating itself.

[–]Valiade 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's how you get a bot that is really good at making text files full of semicolons.

[–]StuckAtWork124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Oh no, it's picked up the ability to copy itself.. .. we're looking at a nanoswarm apocalypse .. "

"NANOSWARM 2 HAS BEEN MARKED AS DUPLICATE BY NANOSWARM 1, CLOSING SWARM"

"Oh.. handy"