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mk · 4955 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism
Thanks! They are much smaller than I imagined. I like the term 'foraging robots'. I'd like to see robots foraging for trash alongside the roads.
The more I think about this, the more annoyed I get. For example, how do they pass genes? IFF they needed to model a physical phenomena (such as fluid dynamics) that would be in effect 'free' with a physical model but soak their cpus, then fine, use physical objects. But for those toy thingies? Frankly, makes you question other aspects of their approach ..
(btw: got a good chuckle seeing c++ and mySql on the bookshelf ;)