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Although not a chemical mechanism, it seems that a randomly generated set of initial operations once executed tends to develop into self-replication: http://diy
by kanzure 11y ago
Although not a chemical mechanism, it seems that a randomly generated set of initial operations once executed tends to develop into self-replication: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai/The%20evolution%20of%20self-replicating%20computer%20organisms%20-%20A.%20N.%20Pargellis.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai/The%20evolution%20of%20se...
Ligation (append) is a necessary precursor operation, I think.
- Gravityloss 11y agoSo once we go deeper into computer generated programs, we might accidentally start creating self replicating programs...
- mangeletti 11y agoAccidentally?
- Gravityloss 11y agoYes, that was the point of my post. I think it's obvious that everyone on Hacker News is aware of purposefully created computer viruses and worms.
- lgas 11y agoWe've already intentionally created self replicating programs: viruses.