BEbeefman·Sep 19, 2021
Instead of Reddit:
https://github.com/ShprAlex/SproutLife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2tXsnzVTaw
In SproutLife 1.0ShprAlex
SproutLife
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ShprAlex / SproutLife
SproutLife
Evolving version of Conway’s Game of Life.
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What it is
Evolving version of Conway’s Game of Life.
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Hi! I'm the creator of SproutLife. I've been planning to do an official announcement of the recent developments, and to update the writeup as well. I recommend checking out the…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesHi! I'm the creator of SproutLife. I've been planning to do an official announcement of the recent developments, and to update the writeup as well.
I recommend checking out the gallery, and working off the latest source
https://github.com/ShprAlex/SproutLife/tree/master/gallery
As far as "evolving towards what", here are my thoughts on the subject:
The inspiration for SproutLife was to create an open ended genome with unlimited potential for evolution.
The initial success was that this was possible.
Anticlimactically, it turns out that an open ended genome in a turing complete environment does not lead to some kind of transcendent evolutionary product. The solutions that emerge are still limited by the simple problems they are tasked with.
It is the evolutionary journey, rather than a specific destination where SproutLife can be most info
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rmative. It can be used to study the role that disruption plays as a threat to stability and a necessity for progress.
In particular, the process of "collapse" is an interesting topic for investigation. From Covid to the popping of stock market bubbles, political upheaval, and even global warming, we are surrounded by real and potential falling of the established order. SproutLife also exhibits this kind of behavior and can let us understand how to quantify and perhaps predict it.
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