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the unity/minecraft level of abstraction is a common one in AFIFE, and too often ends up being Spore - looking and behaving in very interesting ways, but remaining just that. those…

yes! very soon!

this is my personal take; I agree, for the same reasons you mentioned, resource constraints will need to be baked in (they are already, to some extent, if you consider the constrai…

there are many bottlenecks in the substrate - memory limits being one of them. other things like the A-B concatenation inherited from the bff paper also severely limit the possible…

as other folks have replied, Z80 is more expressive and yields more interesting replicators faster. however the question of how complex to make the "base layer", if you will, remai…

authors here - happy to answer any questions! we’re excited for this line of work and see this as the first step on a longer journey.

^ yes. this is what we hope.

:)

colab with all code will be available next week, will add link from the article.

thanks for catching this, the figure for the target was inverted when exporting for publication, corrected now.

could you link the drone swarm command article?

Authors here - will do our best to answer any questions.

There's some recent work that involves NCAs in a 3D setting by Horibe et. al [1] and tweet [2]. Other work by Risi and collaborators is definitely worth checking out as well. [1] h…

That repo contains the code, figures and text for the article. It's set to public now.