Simulating Natural Selection

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I have received a formal letter of complaint from Bob, Inc., accusing us of defamation and misrepresentation of the true aptitudes of the Bobs. This letter remarks our poor treatment of Bob's public image, despite the brilliant performance of the Bobs in many of the simulations, and even occasional victories in simulation samples not used in the final version of this video. Bob, Inc., is a very large corporation which threatens to sue Professor Ghost if this is not ammended. By liking this video, you show your support for our adherence to the truth and help us combat this iniquity.
Today's question will be pretty easy for most of you. Still, I would encourage those who are newer to the field of evolution to think about it in depth for a little while; getting the correct result isn't as important as the realizations you make on your way there.
I am aware that the pace in this video is at times too quick. Here at Professor Ghost we're still getting the hang of things. Expect improvement in our upcoming releases.
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[@professor_ghost]

I'm running 10.000 iterations of the initial simulation to get a clearer look at how the outcomes are distributed. Also to give Bob and Antonio a chance. Check back here for the results.

[@professor_ghost]

Results are in. Turns out 10.000 is a bigger number than I thought.
Antonio: 167 wins
Bob: 27 wins
Creem: 9600 wins
Deth: 206 wins
It's okay Bob. At least you tried.

[@Remnant777]

High quality stuff man, the videos keep improving!

[@HaloWolf102]

This video gives a lot more information about natural selection than most videos on TH-cam on this topic. You have given me a wealth of information. Thank you.

[@shadowguarder2857]

Replication and Selection are cool and all, but theyre not enough. You also NEED mutation, otherwise changes into a highly specialized environment, will result into the population never changing, despite environments having changed, and therefore sucessfull strategies. A population with no mutation is locked in as soon as they are all specialized, and also depends on the diversity of the original pool of creatures, all of this isnt from any biological knowledge, instead entirely concluded from simple logic.

[@Vedranation]

The environment doesn't change through his entire simulation. Amount of pellets or their values remains unchanged.

[@zix2421]

Good explanation, good video

[@butanium_]

Your content is awesome!! Imo the error is that you don't actually need the individual to replicate in order to see evolution. If you remove the %chance creatures die in this environment and instead e.g you make them die if they don't collect 3 pellets every 10s, you will have selection without reproduction

[@pixiehellpup1579]

I love listening to your videos while I draw super soothing I could clean for hours

[@alejolab]

Not sure if the error you are talking about is the omission of mutations in your model and explanation. Technically your video title is correct, there is natural selection at work here. But there is no evolution if replicators are creating exact copies of themselves. Great video!

[@digitaldritten]

i agree

[@EightLittleBears]

Cool!

[@AndrewMellor-darkphoton]

it's starting to look like a genre.

[@Adthereccomendationsguy]

Can we just appreciate how beautiful your garden is

[@NotLW7SH]

The quality of this video and the number of subscribers dont match. I enjoyed this video so much, how do you even edit those videos ?

[@professor_ghost]

Most of my work is done on Blender, for the models, animation, and also video editing. The simulations I run in Java (just because it's very fast) and then I read them with a python script hooked to the Blender API, rendering each frame on Blender. The text animations are done using Manim. I have a custom Blender plug-in to help me speed up, like summoning ghosts and animating characters and the like. In the future I might publish a tutorial to teach how to do the whole process.

[@fabiansw8]

Your talking a bit about how new mutations can be specialisation, to be more or less effective in diffrent areas. Most evolution simulations deem that creatures can only evolve to be better than eachother

[@tadotheminer]

Even though i already said it on dc I heard that comments increase the recommendations here it is : yes it was cool, subscribed immediately

[@davidmurphy563]

This is an absolutely beautiful video. It's a crime you don't have more subs. I'm guessing you didn't carry on with the channel. Regardless, excellent stuff.

[@TakiZiomo_Franio]

That was super cool!

[@lexibyday9504]

you can turn natural selection off in a simulation. This is how most games work. When you look away for a while, the dead creature simply respawns.

[@CersVenk]

similar to Primer's style

[@digitaldritten]

i expected creem to win the first simulation, i was right!

[@joejoemyo]

He was the creem of the crop

[@survival_man7746]

Looks a lot like Primer

[@Brenden-Harrison]

Hey this is a really cool video inspired by primer 👍

[@tarevamarvin]

#underrated

[@Idonotknowofname]

The red one looks like Punimon

[@professor_ghost]

Who doesn't love Punimon

[@nainethedarkcinnamonroll-ql1pj]

THIS IS WAY CUTER THAN PRIMERS VIDS SUBSCRIBED

[@vortex7984]

merci

[@dan_asd]

Is that a digimon reference or a simple coincidence of simple designs?

[@professor_ghost]

It is!

[@nsc_notncs]

Before 100 subs LETS GOOOOO

[@JOZZYmusic]

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