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Now, as you mentioned your field, I have a crackpot idea to evolve a divisor of a big number.
How much points on the crackpot scale from 0 to 99 I've earned with this? Zero means no quacking at all, while 80 is something like "I have an UFO in the basement, and a private zoo with the captured aliens". I can't imagine 99.
Umh.. twenty?
You'd be applying a weak optimization process to the problem instead of using your built-in much stronger one, and hoping that its different set of biases will let it hit on a useful algorithm that you yourself wouldn't.
Intuitively, math-space is too big and twisted for evolution to work, and it'd suffer horribly from getting stuck on local maxima. I don't know this for certain, however, and even if you fail you'll still have learned something.
At least not always. At least.