danwills

While I acknowledge that this is meant to be framed in the context where the message is fully compressed, I think particularly when the medium is language (usually pretty compressable), then actually anti-aliasing the transfer of information is still 100% relevant! After all, AA is really about making better use of the information that you actually transmit. Compressed or otherwise, 1000 bits of aliasy garbage is not in any way the same as 1000 bits of perfectly antialiased signal.

I like to think of this idea of transfer of information (via words, let's say) from speaker/writer to listener/reader, as actually a fairly normal signal processing situation. One where the constructor of the message during it's 'rasterisation' from continuous thoughts to discrete words, can do the job well (ie: band-limit and 'antialias' the message, fully considering the target sampling domain), or badly (ignore the target domain and just speak/write from the source context, leading to 'aliasing' in the listener's received message).

I know this isn't how many people think about words, but I think the idea of antialiasing is relevant and something that people should think more about (including with respect to AI-generated text).

Same here! However a friend had an Amiga and the music there was sample-based like a demoscene 'tracker' (but in a proprietary format), so it also had that lovely sample-based aspect ;) I still listen to extracted/covered versions of some of those to this day!

Ah yes you're so right, a 'distributed' synchronisation method could work great!

I love the idea of mechanical sensing too! Would be cool if somehow the 3-neighbour 'grow' rule could somehow involve budding off a cell from the (or one of the?) 'parents' and transitions from 1 to 0 (cell death) could actually involve the disassembly of something! : )

Since GOL doesn't consider the self-cell, there are 9 possible values for the 'total' (0 to 8), and since there's both Birth and Survival, that's 18 bits in total, so 2^18 which comes to 262,144 possible rules! That is a LOT more than I thought there were! Cool! - makes me want to explore them again more thoroughly.

Cool! This is about an interactive display but initially I thought someone might have managed to make GOL into a physical automaton! Cells could physically sense neighbouring cell states and change their own states.. might still need a global clock to get coherent GOL behaviour but I think that would be fascinating! Also GOL (2,3/3) is only one out of about 1024 possible 2d totalistic CA rules, some of the others have interesting behaviours too and would be fun to be able to explore in the real world :)

I think that that might be an aspect of the reproductive fitness of the 'hive' (or meta-organism) of all humans, rather than the genes in any individual or population.

I agree individual humans mostly seem to behave more like single-celled micro-organisms and it's a stretch to call it a collective-organism, but it's also not impossible to see the relevant analogous aspects though I think! (like, the internet could be one example?)

It's an interesting question whether the human species (or life-as-a-whole?) viewed as a single-system will be able to reproduce itself. Sounds like the question only makes sense when talking about settling elsewhere than Earth.. Mmm, reminds me of the Fermi Paradox. Will we make it through this!?!

I'm reminded of this section of a Douglas Adams quote:

"Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again."

I like how this is not even specific to life nor genes, and it's not hard to add to it the idea of happening-again in ways that make the thing better-or-worse at happening again.

Personally I think this applies to all coherently-causal systems.. still trying to figure out whether to believe QM is fully causal or not! (Currently seems like it might be a mixture?)

I agree with your sentiment but myself I'm not convinced that either politics or corruption are actually (in reality) one-dimensional as you're suggesting, despite fairly widely reported trends towards world-wide political polarisation, and various different groups/parties/companies trying to appear as if they don't harbour corruption in a black-and-white way (how ridiculous!?) these things affect all systems to varying (nonzero) degrees.

I think there are actually still plenty of other dimensions/axes/structures one can think and argue/discuss about even if not many people (or politicians) actually do!

Authoritarianism surely sucks on so many levels though, I will echo that for sure!

Ah thanks for letting me know! I had not set it to public. It's public now though! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! Perfect match as far as I can see, nice one! How did you learn/know how to do this?

The code was really interesting to read and tinker with! I made a version where the symmetry (7 originally) can be other numbers, and that was fascinating to see!

ShaderToy forever!!