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A small update here: another replication using a different CPU, the 6502. In this case, replicators emerge 100 times less frequently than in Z80, due to a lacking LDIR-like instruc…

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> Do you have any idea why the authors chose Z80 as the program language? In that previous paper you cite (by the same group) they tested several substrates for spontaneous replica…

Thanks for posting this, indeed that group at google has produced some interesting research in this space. That paper was also discussed here back in the day: https://news.ycombina…

An independent reproduction of the main result: https://github.com/vicgalle/coevolution-soup

I enjoy creating new benchmarks for LLMs. Lately, combining scientific computing tasks (n-body sim, Monte Carlo, etc) with Apple Metal GPU kernels (evolved through LLMs) led to a c…

> https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1749893683137454194 Not very promising, though.