# Cascading Stable Strategies

Originally published: 2013-11-12
Canonical URL: /2013/Nov/cascading-stable-strategies/

"What do you think of my website's new look? I designed it with ESS."

"It's hideous! And you mean [CSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets)."

"No, [ESS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy). I used genetic algorithms to 'breed' new designs until the pool of candidates settled down into equilibrium."

"Ah."