Russell McMahon wrote:
> What you can do is develop systems that target the differences between
> the sensors in use and the human eye/ear. This does wonders for the
> development of accurate eye/ear emulating sensors. This process is
> traditionally known in the behavioural 'sciences' as an "arms race".

Reminds me of another "arms race."

There is a poisonous newt, whose skin is very poisonous. The reason is it's 
so poisonous, is that there's this Gartner snake that eats the newt. They 
say that in the beginning, the newt probably wasn't that poisonous, but the 
snake started to develop immunity, so it had to adjust by developing more 
toxin. The snake, in turn, had to adjust too by increasing the levels of 
antidote. And so on.

It's gotten to the point of ridiculous. The snake eats the newt, and lays 
motionless for a while, paralyzed by the poison (eventually it gets 
neutralized).

Despite the fact that both of them waste so much of their resources on 
developing poison (newt) or the antidote (snake), the end result is the 
same.

Vitaliy 

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