[eu-gene] Generative or not? cubo23

[rob at robmyers.org]

Quoting Jim Andrews <jim at vispo.com>:

> there is nothing theoretical that prevents machines from programming
> themselves.

Your Mac's OpenGL subsystem programs itself, generating code on the fly for
certain operations. This is a meta-operation as the system as a whole is
answering dynamic requirements by creating a sub-system on the fly.

It has the intention of being faster.

*Specific* intent is easy enough to embody. But the *general* intent 
that it is
an instance of is always human. We could write a program to randomly decide
what to write a program to do and then to code it up, but this might not be
very interesting as we would have very little in common with the meta-program.
It would probably make a piece about conses.

There is something very wrong philosophically with AARON's drawings of human
beings, although not as wrong as Martin Maloney's...

- Rob.