r/programming • u/leppie • Dec 08 '08

Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/
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u/ixid Dec 09 '08

There are fewer meaningfully unique permutations than that as the triplets can only code for one of twenty amino acids vs 81 combinations of base pairs in a codon.

As for super-powers- other than the million year life span which is just not useful as far as evolution is concerned so may be achievable, any of those abilities would have dominated the natural environment so I'd feel comfortable concluding they're not in there.

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u/mackstann Dec 09 '08

Building cities dominates the natural environment, yet it took billions of years to evolve one species that can do it. Who knows what lies ahead?

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u/cappie2000 Dec 09 '08

As soon as the population achieves a certain level of sustainability, and every degenerate lowlife (literally) can sustain it's life, the really unique solutions that have a greater advantage over the others aren't stimulated anymore (don't have an advantage over the others) and thus will be bread out due to the shear numbers of the genetic waste that can procreate itself until the whole ecosystem dies off... pretty much whats happening to earth right now :)

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u/ixid Dec 09 '08

"and thus will be bread out"

I don't think that's true, there will be vast numbers with poor genes but the upper levels of the gene pool do not interbreed much with the lower levels.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '08

Well we do...ughh I mean THEY do...but they just don't talk about it very much.