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Numsgil:
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--- Quote ---I'm not sure what you mean.
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I mean that it would be like the dynamic costs. If you set it to 2 it will make specialization more favorable and generalization less favorable than if you just set it to one.
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Oh, yes, we can do a slider. It wouldn't be an integer slider like that, though. It'd be more a continuous [0,1] multiplier or something like that.
--- Quote ---You might also have to have a sensitivity slider to define how sensitive it would be to classifiying species.
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The core program doesn't really understand the concept of "species". That's more a high level concept we use for graphs and starting conditions and such.
bacillus:
I think that calculations involving mutations should be avoided if unnecessary. Evosims are already slow enough without having to make a global cost highly individualized.
Houshalter:
I just meant that it would loosely define species, at least for the purposes of this slider, by the type of specialization they had, not by analyzing there entire genome or mutation details. Anyways that might work for multibots if you average the entire bots specialization, but antbots and butterflys might not work as well.
Numsgil:
--- Quote from: Houshalter ---I just meant that it would loosely define species, at least for the purposes of this slider, by the type of specialization they had, not by analyzing there entire genome or mutation details. Anyways that might work for multibots if you average the entire bots specialization, but antbots and butterflys might not work as well.
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I guess I'm missing something. Let's say the simulation determines that there are currently 3 different "species", and the slider is set to 2. What happens?
Houshalter:
--- Quote ---I guess I'm missing something. Let's say the simulation determines that there are currently 3 different "species", and the slider is set to 2. What happens?
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Generalization becomes cheaper, specialization becomes more expensive or at least less beneficial than it would normally be. But do we really need to be worrying about there being less species. If you could get it to evolve a small ecosystem it would great.
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