Richard Martin-Nielsen<p>Peter Watts refs his second novel <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Maelstrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maelstrom</span></a> as he discusses emergence of self-replicating patterns from random strings in various computing environments but I had memories of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoreWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoreWars</span></a> floating through my head as I read it all. </p><p>From the quoted article:<br>We show that when random, non self-replicating programs are placed in an environment lacking any explicit fitness landscape, self-replicators tend to arise.</p><p><a href="https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11220" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rifters.com/crawl/?p=11220</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterWatts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterWatts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialLife</span></a></p>