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From: rwallace@tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Subject: Re: TownSim Models
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>ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu (Robert A. Uhl) wrote:


>>that it must do is call *(species.mate)(simx,simy) to mate them,
>>instead of writing its own mating function.


The only problem I can see with all these proposals about GAs, different
species mating and so on is that the result will be JungleSim, not
TownSim.  99% of the activities carried out by modern-day humans are
done for reasons having nothing at all to do with number of surviving
offspring, so if you want to create a simulated town, GAs won't do the
job.

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"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
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