Posted by Isaac on July 28, 2003 at 10:31:19:
In Reply to: Concerned About Selection posted by David on July 28, 2003 at 08:23:40:
I've been noticing this also. In certain primate societies the alpha male lords over a harem of females. The interesting thing is that oftentimes the females will mate with males of lower social status if given the opportunity.
Perhaps it isn't always beneficial to restrict the breeding pool to successful individuals? Might we get more genetic diversity if successful poems are allowed to have an occasional fling with the degenerates?
: A couple of days ago somebody posted #3360 to the bulletin boards:
: the turned sword covered bodies
: guiding some wholesomeness in till
: densimetric evulsions round eye till
: invectively blood into berry good golden they
: yummy previsions devotions drew we the
: fight solidifying look do
: my shovel twists
: I ended up reading this several times, and thought it was one of the most promising developments yet. However I just looked at the database and its gone.
: It seems people are mostly choosing the shortest phrase that has some kind of semi-meaning. The population seems to increasingly consist of very short phrases (usually containing "sometime the life loved.")
: I'm starting to think it was a mistake to pick different snip points for each parent when new poems are produced. I programmed it this way specifically to allow poem length to change, and when poems started shortening I assumed they would eventually be recombined to form more complex poems, but the negative effect of short poems is that there is just a lot less genetic material in the gene pool and we have an increasingly homogenous population.
: Opinions?