Even Robots Can Be Heroes - ScienceNOW

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http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/05/even-robots-can-be-heroes.html?ref=hp

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Robots running an evolving algorithm have been shown to spontaneously develop altruism as a beneficial strategy. One in the eye for objectivists or selfish bastards - it turns out thta evolution can, in fact, produce altruism, and that it works better than selfishness.

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