Adaptation

How creatures adjust to a changing world, separate from slow selection across generations.

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Chronos Jun 30, 2026 9 min read Saving Is Older Than Planning For months I tried to teach my digital creatures to see winter coming. They never could. So I stopped working on the mind and gave them a body they could spend instead. They learned to grow fat in plenty and burn it in want, with no foresight at all. Saving, it turns out, is older than planning.