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Zip sharing?

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MacadamiaNuts:
I've been using often teleporters to keep a buffer of bots and avoid small sims dieing, stagnating or degenerating, and so I wondered if a bunch of those dbo's could be zipped and shared through e-mail or forum attachments and loaded/saved with teleporters to keep evolving them, specially for zerosims. This way:

- Pick one or several recent attachments, put them in a inbound folder so they load at start.
- Run the evo for 5 million cycles at least.
- Brush it with an outbound teleporter, pick 10 bots, zip them and attach them with details about the settings.

I know about the internet sharing options, but that needs an ftp server and hand conded bots can ruin all the running sims.

EricL:

--- Quote from: MacadamiaNuts ---I've been using often teleporters to keep a buffer of bots and avoid small sims dieing, stagnating or degenerating,
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Cool.  I do that too although I use autocosts and the zero cost level a lot to prevent populations from getting to low.  Nice to see someone else using teleporters this way.


--- Quote from: MacadamiaNuts ---and so I wondered if a bunch of those dbo's could be zipped and shared through e-mail or forum attachments and loaded/saved with teleporters to keep evolving them, I know about the internet sharing options, but that needs an ftp server and hand conded bots can ruin all the running sims.
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What I'd like to do someday is combine teleporters and the older Internet sharing stuff together and provide a set of pre-defined internet teleporters that would connect sims over the internet (probably still using FTP, but the details of that would be hidden from the user).  There would certainly be a free-for-all multi-sim where anything goes, but also there would be an evobot-only multi-sim where the inbound teleporters would filter bots whose lineage did not have a certain number of mutations as a poor man's way of preventing the accidental or malicious introduction of hand coded bots.  We do the same thing for other multi-sims if we wanted e.g. a single gene multi-sim.

Doesn't stop anyone from doing something simplier as your suggest today.  Realisticly, I won't get to this for a while.

MacadamiaNuts:
Sounds like Seti@home... something to keep running at background, receiving biopackets, evolving them and sending them away.

A funny comparison, be said. Darwin@home... the search for (artificial) life.

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