jekude

All true, but I think its a valuable exercise to try to design/understand/exploit these dynamics

I think the question and article is fascinating. I do think that one should not only look at the genetic representation, and the algorithm a cell runs, but also the formalized environment that runs the simulation.

I’ve been thinking about this for a few years and I truly believe these cells need to be able to “move” in either a 3d lattice similar to a cellular automata or become nodes in some cyclic graph (or maybe both).

For the genetic representation, I had an insight that DNA/RNA looks strangely similar to SKI calculus (combinators) and have been using a Church encoding to translate the SKI program to an “action” per turn (move, connect, spike, divide, etc.). It has a nice property that the cell’s “program” and the spikes between them, and the input/output to the simulation itself can be the same thing (just a string of combinators).

Either way the author is spot on when it comes to this sort of thing having the properties 1) “always on” (no separate training mode), 2) local interactions, 3) everything stems from a genome, 4) each cell is its own little mini-program with the same genetics as everyone else.

All I can say is that evolutionary program is hard and takes either massive compute or large timescales to run the simulations. Fascinating stuff though

The abstract implies that strictly local updates are a hinderance to high res, however i would have thought there would be an interesting way to get speed up gains from neighbor-only traffic on GPUs CAM-style. am i making that up?

What would physical EML gates be implemented in reality?

Posts like these are the reason i check HN every day

Now have the agents write actual code for the laws!

if the entire open web is vulnerable to being sybil attacked, are we going to have to take this all underground?

Maybe sama was onto something with World ID...

Can you share how you go about searching for the interesting rules?

I have been asking myself for a while: Why has Artificial Life not had its AlexNet moment with GPUs yet?

Nice, this definitely needs to be standardized

Charmbracelet is amazing. Will there be an equivalent of Claude Code's CLAUDE.md files?