Yeah, exactly. Bottom-up allows humans to see what is possible. But bottom-up also allows some humans to be top-down towards others :) I'm not too concerned about the limited degrees of freedom. We're human and we have our limitations, no point worrying about that. In programming terms, I just want us to avoid regressions. It's wasteful of human lives to spend time changing states to one that we already knew long ago had problems. Avoiding repeating history and all that. Oh, I was totally serious. I wasn't sure how much to assume regarding familiarity with genetic algorithms and so on. At least the people I know at hubski wouldn't need too much belaboring of those properties. (BTW, do we have some way to do nested quotes? Has that come up?)As opposed to the morons who read Ribbon Farm? Kidding, obviously :)
Also, nested quotes haven't come up as far as I'm aware. forwardslash did a lot of work to redo the markup, but I don't think that was part of it. Maybe he'll jump in an enlighten us.
Me neither. I only brought it up because there's a pervasive cultural myth that evolution leads to optimal solutions. It doesn't. It takes what is there and coaxes it to extract resources more efficiently. Therefore, there is a case to be made that bottom up with strong regulation (top down) may be advantageous. That is, when presented with a choice between two extremes, it's often the middle way that should carry the day.I'm not too concerned about the limited degrees of freedom.