It's worth reading the paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...
The point is that the well known properties of the game theory algorithm explain why sex has the effective properties which have been observed but not explained. I haven't read John Holland's paper. Does it refer to the details of the multiplicative weight updates algorithm?
Agree completely.
Also with reading Dennett's paper on the Turing Test: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/p...
I think the same approach to reading makes reading ideogram based languages, such as Chinese and Japanese written using Kanji, particularly efficient. My (not scientifically tested) impression is that reading a simple sentence in Japanese is faster than in English (I'm a native English reader and no expert in Japanese).I guess reading Egyptian Hieroglyphs was similarly fast.
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen
