Re: Darwinian Poetry

Eternal Vigilance wrote:
> stmx3 wrote:
>
>
> > If you like genetic algoirthms AND poetry (how often do those two
> > things get mentioned in the same sentence?) please check out and
> > hopefully participate in the Darwinian Poetry experiment:
> >
> >       http://www.CodeAsArt.com/poetry/darwin.html
> >
> > The selection mechanism is based on human preference, so lots of
> > participation is needed to hopefully exhibit evolution.  Spread the word!
> >
> > Some examples of what has evolved so far after only a few generations:
> >
> > though
> > clouds in dying growing
> > of snow sing learned flying when the
> > the thought and distance horses
> > I perhaps love
> >
> > AND
> >
> > look human of tricks
> > the amazed stranger
> > the far are grave
> > I clang and whole weave he
> > the flowing blindfold
> >
> > Also, see some interesting evolved phrases, like "love pumping tractor"
> > and "thumping penguin".
> >
> > -stmx3
>
>
> Interesting  to see how brittle the  'survival' function mecahism  is -- if
> one  human with bad taste or
> a Griefer can destabalize it.

I think the idea is that with a lot of input, one griefer's input would 
be in the noise.  In the first version of the program, somebody set up a 
script that continually voted for the first of two poems, and that set 
things back tremendously.  The current version has better security built in.