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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>On Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Anders Sandberg<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] anternet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 29/08/2012 03:27, spike wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>COOL!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I assume you are immediately going to become an anternet hacker?<br></span>-- <o:p></o:p></p><pre>Anders Sandberg,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I tried Anders. Those two orange trees you recall seeing in my backyard have aphid-farming ants. I noticed they run a subroutine: go up tree, get nectar from aphid, take nectar down tree to nest, repeat until dead.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The ants have apparently no means of learning, for no matter what I tried to do to them, they never could run any other program. I used tanglefoot ant-goo to make all the ants cross a narrow strip of paper to go either direction. Then I made what I call the double-straw experiment, where they had to go through one of two tubes, which were not big enough for ants to pass each other inside. They got all tangled up in there, so I eventually simplified it to two holes in the strip of paper, adjacent. All they had to figure out is for the holes to be one-way: always go thru the hole on the right for instance, one hole for upgoing ants, one for downgoing ants.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I was most disappointed with them really. No matter what I did, they never could figure out how to make both holes into one-way paths. I tried dividing the holes with a strip of tanglefoot, I tried coloring them differently so they could tell the difference, no use. These little beasts that can somehow manage to get a completely different beast to hand over nectar cannot figure out something so simple as making two adjacent paths into one-ways. Instead they get all wadded up and piled on top of each other, many of them getting caught in the damn tanglefoot, generally looking like the billion stooges.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>