Arguably, evolutionary pressures driving E coli to reduce waste come from other agents exploiting e coli’s wastefulness. At least in part. Admittedly, that’s not the only thing making it hard for e coli to reproduce while being wasteful. But the upshot is that exploiting/arbitraging away predictable loss of resources may drive coherence across iterations of an agent design instead of within one design. Which is useful to note, though I admit that this comment kinda feels like a cope for the frame that exploitability is logically downstream of coherence.
Arguably, evolutionary pressures driving E coli to reduce waste come from other agents exploiting e coli’s wastefulness. At least in part. Admittedly, that’s not the only thing making it hard for e coli to reproduce while being wasteful. But the upshot is that exploiting/arbitraging away predictable loss of resources may drive coherence across iterations of an agent design instead of within one design. Which is useful to note, though I admit that this comment kinda feels like a cope for the frame that exploitability is logically downstream of coherence.