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Strange mutation (Mut)(Chesterkit)-10.03.07

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Numsgil:
If the hashing is incorrect, it means that the program thinks someone's been messing with the DNA outside the program.  It's there to prevent someone from saving a bot, rewriting its DNA, and pretending it "evolved".

chesterkit:
[quote name='Numsgil' date='Mar 12 2007, 03:00 AM' post='1370675']
If the hashing is incorrect, it means that the program thinks someone's been messing with the DNA outside the program.  It's there to prevent someone from saving a bot, rewriting its DNA, and pretending it "evolved".
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Hm? That's odd... I don't understand what that would acomplish anyway.

Numsgil:
It's an old feature that hasn't been properly tested in years, so don't think I'm accusing you or anything, but in theory some unscrupulous person could let the program run for a few thousand cycles, pick a random bot, and totally alter its DNA.  They could then present the bot as evidence of evolution, or lack of evolution, etc. etc.

Endy:
Might be a good idea to work in the ability to directly cut and paste directly from the dna window in future versions. I've been using it for so long, I had actually forgotten about the hasing thing entirely.

chesterkit:
[quote name='Numsgil' date='Mar 13 2007, 05:08 AM' post='1370684']
It's an old feature that hasn't been properly tested in years, so don't think I'm accusing you or anything, but in theory some unscrupulous person could let the program run for a few thousand cycles, pick a random bot, and totally alter its DNA.  They could then present the bot as evidence of evolution, or lack of evolution, etc. etc.
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Ah, I was wondering if you were..

I just don't get it, what would that acomplish? So what if it doesn't evolve.. Just say you changed the dna anyway.

Well whatever, seems kind of pointless to do that to me.

I'll be sure to post more strange mutations I'm not planning on learning how to make my own dna but I am very interested in how it changes in certain situations.

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