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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>
Cory Doctorow<p>And then, this kicker: "it’s a gorgeous rejection of the idea that long-form fiction is about individual subjectivity and the interior life. It’s about people as pinballs. They don’t just reveal things about the other objects they hit; their constant action and reaction reveals the walls that hold them all in." </p><p>Likewise, I was thrilled with <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PeterWatts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterWatts</span></a>'s review on his "No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons" blog::</p><p><a href="https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10578%22%3Ehttps://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10578" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rifters.com/crawl/?p=10578%22%</span><span class="invisible">3Ehttps://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10578</span></a></p><p>56/</p>
Dan Hon<p>Adrian Tchaikovsky&#39;s Children of Memory, which I enjoyed, ended up being an interesting companion piece to Blindsight. </p><p><a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/tags/blindsight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blindsight</span></a> <a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/tags/childrenofmemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>childrenofmemory</span></a> <a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/tags/peterwatts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>peterwatts</span></a> <a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/tags/adriantchaikovsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>adriantchaikovsky</span></a> <a href="https://dan.mastohon.com/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a></p>