[93002] in Cypherpunks
Re: [Humor] Kennedy's New Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Sun Jan 11 03:58:20 1998
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:23:05 -0800
To: platypus@acmeonline.net
From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Cc: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980111012555.141H-100000@shirley>
Reply-To: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
At 01:28 AM 1/11/98 +1100, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
> If you have a population of
>unchanging clones (your typical 'master race') you don't get any evoltion
>or improvement.
>
A population *must* undergo variation in its
heriditary units since
1. there's always errors in copying the code
2. equivalently, you can't drive the error rate
of a channel down to 0, just arbitrarily close.
So your herd of clones will eventually acquire
some genetic diversity and selection necessarily
follows.
Geez are we off-subject.
David Honig honig@alum.mit.edu
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