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Botworld: A cellular automaton for studying self-modifying agents

• deleted 12y ago
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• zoba 12y ago
  So I cloned and installed it... And I'm running the example. However, I'm really not sure what I'm looking at here. http://i.imgur.com/xMkV1Qg.png http://i.imgur.com/xMkV1Qg.png Can anyone explain?
  • GhotiFish 12y ago
    well. I sure can't, but I'll say that the author goes into great depth in the source file, which is a literate program. It's latex, rendered here: http://intelligence.org/files/Botworld.pdf http://intelligence.org/files/Botworld.pdf but the author doesn't pull punches, no layman's terms are used, and as a lame man, I have trouble following.
  • So8res 12y ago
    Author here. The display library has recently been updated -- try updating and running again, it should make a bit more sense. Also, refer to this post: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/k5u/exploring_botworld/ http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/k5u/exploring_botworld/ for both an explanation of what we find Botworld useful for and some documentation for how to write Botworld programs and interpret displayed Botworld grids.
    • icefox 12y ago
      Including a screenshot in the readme would be nice btw.
• gwern 12y ago
  LW discussion: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1o/botworld_a_cellular_automaton_for_studying/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1o/botworld_a_cellular_automaton_fo...
• Lambdanaut 12y ago
  It's a good step in the right direction. I can't wait to see the robot parts broken down further.