My Project

[Morrog]

I had a little project about mutating programs awhile ago. Maybe a year or so. I got a document up at http://www.cljy.com/~billy/MutatingProgram.htm
I'd like to hear some opinions on it, response...ya know, just ...stuff...

I find that this was a pretty good project, it's given me a lot of information, including spiritually. Gives an interesting look on things...It also gives me some cold hard proof of why evolution doesn't work . Anyway, so go read the article already!

 

[godscreation8888]

your project in a way seems like a harmless virus.

 

[godscreation8888]

wait, I take the "harmless" part back.

 

[Deacon]

Yea I don't think I am going to click on it....since you just said that...

 

[Heathen Dawn]

It also gives me some cold hard proof of why evolution doesn't work .

Then it’s not a good simulation. There are plenty of evolution simulation programs that show evolution does work.

 

[Morrog]

Maybe their simulations were wrong
Anyway, the link is to a document(html) not the actual exe pack.

EDIT: and yeah, it's pretty harmful. But it isn't a virus. It doesn't spread to other computers, it stays on one.

 

[Deacon]

Well since you were completely honest I won't even look at it anymore.

 

[datan]

fascinating.

how ever in order to realistically approach a simulation on evolution, you need to have other driving forces that determine which programs survive and which do not. you need some definition of 'strength' or 'fitness', some instinct of self preservation etc.

what would be really interesting is if you could create a self-modifying program that mutated but did the exact same behaviour. eg. replace opcodes only with functionally equivalent ones

 

[Morrog]

what would be really interesting is if you could create a self-modifying program that mutated but did the exact same behaviour. eg. replace opcodes only with functionally equivalent ones

heh, trying to trick me 'eh? I know what that it is. Its a program that blackhat hackers want so they can re-release viruses but not have those rewritten virsuses detected as the old ones.

Anyway, they do have a definition of 'strength'. The ones that could reproduce faster and make more copies were stronger, because when it came time to restart the computer and start the last 800 or so programs in the folder the ones that reproduced the most would have the most in that 800 program frame.

I'm not an evolutionist, BTW. I'm just interested in this kind of stuff.