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The parallels with how biological life started are tantalizing. Life also "optimized away" its origins after the initial bootstrap, through increasing layers of
by Radim 5y ago
The parallels with how biological life started are tantalizing. Life also "optimized away" its origins after the initial bootstrap, through increasing layers of sophistication.
AFAIK research into origins of life is stuck somewhere around the GNU Mes level now. We know of the weird mutual dependency between proteins and nucleic acids (RNA and ribosomes in particular), but noone figured out how to kickstart the process from one turtle deeper yet.
Biology is still waiting for its "stage0".
It makes me excited that we're still so close to the origin (of computing) that such questions are vaguely tractable.
- andrey_utkin 5y agoYep :) > The same holds for the genome. To create a new ‘binary’ of a specimen, a living copy is required. The genome needs an elaborate toolchain in order to deliver a living thing. The code itself is impotent. This toolchain is commonly called ‘your parents’. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/amazing-dna/ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/amazing-dna/
- cout 5y agoDo you think a time could ever come when we still have computers (and know how to make new ones), but history has forgotten how they came to be in the first place?