The American Consumer Union has declared the XD133 Slow Down Slide unsafe for children. The slide, designed by a genetic algorithm, has been recalled. Details are at TheBRITES.org.
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That picture is just disturbing.
To take this on a more serious track, if the fitness function incorporated two factors–the ability to slow down the child AND the safety of the child–something like that would be avoided.
But, that targetting requires DESIGN!!!!!!!
I believe they were originally going to use an algorithm employing steepest descent, but wound up instead used one that determined the gratest slope.
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You would know!
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