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Back in the day I spent way too much time keeping up with the MUD-DEV mailing list. There were a lot of discussions that touched on these topics, although not always as constructively as Atwood does here.

Here's an old post by Raph Koster that talks about how to deal with kewl d00ds. I was reminded of it because Koster referred to them as genetic algorithms with respect to bug/exploit finding. It's a bit of a tangent but there are some similarities.

http://nilgiri.net/MUD-Dev-archive/15729.html