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Evolution and Internet Sharing Sims / RandomBot replicator in 7 min!
« on: August 18, 2007, 04:00:44 PM »
Using the randombot generator here several times I made a RandomBot with a DNA length of 3000.
I then started a sim with one RandomBot at 1000 for point mutations and delta mutations disabled. I gave it a starting energy of 32000. I made it a veg at 10 energy per cycle. I also set all costs to 0. 7 min later, at 400 cycles a second, a replicator.
The more bots, the better chance of a replicator evolving. But because the number of bots slow the sim exponentially, it takes a lot less time with just one bot for a replicator to evolve.
I then started a sim with one RandomBot at 1000 for point mutations and delta mutations disabled. I gave it a starting energy of 32000. I made it a veg at 10 energy per cycle. I also set all costs to 0. 7 min later, at 400 cycles a second, a replicator.
The more bots, the better chance of a replicator evolving. But because the number of bots slow the sim exponentially, it takes a lot less time with just one bot for a replicator to evolve.