On 9/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eliezer S. Yudkowsky</b> <<a href="mailto:sentience@pobox.com">sentience@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sigh. I know that reclaiming the word "evolution" is a lost cause,<br>after all the abuse that's been rendered on it - but it leaves people<br>with only a single mental bucket to represent two hellaciously different
<br>optimization processes.</blockquote><div><br>
Well, memetics is something of a grey area where you have selection
operating on entities which were created and modified by intelligence
rather than random mutation; "evolution" can be taken to mean selection
(of entities generated by any means) or the entire package of purely
random mutation plus selection. That said, I'm not really trying to
argue for the first usage, was merely providing a perspective plus data
to back it up.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">PS: Robert Bradbury, would you *please* stop advocating murdering<br>everyone you don't like? It ain't movin' humanity forward.
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Agreed.<br>
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