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by RaftPeople 666 days ago
> Then clone that 1000 times and apply subtle mutations to it. Then, put these clones in an FFA arena and see who wins based upon a very well crafted fitness function. Then, do all of that over and over thousands of times per hour.

I spent many years on an ALife+ANN simulation that did this. For each new generation, I kept the top X% unchanged, the next Y% were changed a little, next Z% changed a lot, etc.

It was pretty fun and I wish I had the time+money to continue on a larger scale.