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But hackers in general don't make money or gain reproductive advantage, so is their evolution Darwinian? Sure it is. Moulton
gave a good example: "Of the last four games [my son] bought ... two were great and two were dreck. At $50+ a pop and that
poor a good-to-junk ratio, the game makers (and record/movie companies) are just giving crackers and sharers incentives not
to pay."
In any human activity where there is a course of action with a great enough incentive, humans have evolved to try to take
advantage, even when the risk is relatively great. The result is that Darwinian-style evolution is creating humans who get
better at anything with a desirable payoff, whether it be spamming, hacking or running large corporations.
Stop banging the rocks together and write to backspin@gibbs.com or post on Gibbsblog.
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