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jknilinux:
What is the longest that anybody here has ever run an ecosim? Has an evobot ever come close to being able to out-compete a hand-made bot?
Testlund:
I ran an evosim from January or February to october last year, started out with one zerobot species. In autumn I tested my zerobots in Internet Mode to see if they could compete with the designed ones, but the only way I found that they could do that was to increase the costs in my sim which killed anything that came teleported into it. I suppose the ones that was teleported out from my sim got eaten right away. I saw some fascinating behavior evolve from my bots, but no hunter or anything like a designed bot. The ones I ran as heterotrophs evolved to conserve energy as much as possible, reproduce between long intervals and mostly sitting still.
Now the program has much more features and more bugs have been squished so now it might be a different outcome with such a sim.
jknilinux:
--- Quote from: Testlund ---I ran an evosim from January or February to october last year, started out with one zerobot species.
--- End quote ---
I thought no zerobots had ever evolved conditional logic, hence the current contest.
What interesting behaviors did your bots evolve?
Testlund:
I have described it here, but no point in trying to run that sim on todays versions. The bots would likely appear completely dead or the program might even crash.
http://www.darwinbots.com/Forum/index.php?showtopic=2051
Peksa:
Out of curiosity, how many cycles did it run in the ~8 months?
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