Comment by kittikitti

1 month ago

This is a very interesting experiment where I hope the metamorphosis is more like a butterfly than Kafka.

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Esophagus4  1 month ago

Yes, this could end up either turning into a Linux or like when Microsoft released Tay and Twitter users taught it to be a Nazi. Or anywhere in between, really.

  • jibal  1 month ago

    It really can't for numerous reasons, one of them being that PRs have to be fairly low effort, and this will be even more so if the popular "merge daily" PR is voted in. People talk about this "evolving", but it's nothing like biological evolution or genetic algorithms. It's just a linear sequence of small changes, and without either planning and central authority or some stable fitness function (the ecological environment in biological evolution) the changes are directionless.

    • Esophagus4  1 month ago

      > the changes are directionless.

      I guess we’ll see whether that turns out to be true! Will be a fun experiment to watch, at least.