Conways Game of Life on Blockchain

One of the more poetic reasons why I like Ethereum VM is because it seems likely to keep running for a very, very long time. I would take a Long Bet that it will still exist 100 years in the future.

With that in mind, this might end up being the longest "continuously running" (both words with some heavy qualifiers) Conway's Game of Life implementation.

Re: Conways Game of Life on Blockchain

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Post by throwaway4good » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

jeromeof wrote: post #2

The most expensive implementation of Conway's Game of Life ever - over $2,000 per step! (Probably the slowest too!)

Then try to calculate the energy / processing power spent per step.

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Post by joosters » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

flixic wrote: post #4

I absolutely love this. One of the more poetic reasons why I like Ethereum VM is because it seems likely to keep running for a very, very long time. I would take a Long Bet that it will still exist 100 years in the future. With that in mind, this might end up being the longest "continuously running" (both words with some heavy qualifiers) Conway's Game of Life implementation.

Never mind 100 years in the future, this game of life implementation isn't running even now. As the article says, it would cost $80 just to register the code to run it, never mind funding each compute step.

And yet your phone could compute the next 100 years of this ethereum GoL calculations in far less than a second!

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 10:24 AM UTC

flixic wrote: post #4

I absolutely love this. One of the more poetic reasons why I like Ethereum VM is because it seems likely to keep running for a very, very long time. I would take a Long Bet that it will still exist 100 years in the future. With that in mind, this might end up being the longest "continuously running" (both words with some heavy qualifiers) Conway's Game of Life implementation.

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Post by flixic » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 10:31 AM UTC

joosters wrote: post #6

flixic wrote: post #4

I absolutely love this. One of the more poetic reasons why I like Ethereum VM is because it seems likely to keep running for a very, very long time. I would take a Long Bet that it will still exist 100 years in the future. With that in mind, this might end up being the longest "continuously running" (both words with some heavy qualifiers) Conway's Game of Life implementation.

Never mind 100 years in the future, this game of life implementation isn't running even now . As the article says, it would cost $80 just to register the code to run it, never mind funding each compute step. And yet your phone could compute the next 100 years of this ethereum GoL calculations in far less than a second!

I wouldn't bet on my phone's processor being functional in the XXIInd century, but this code will likely still be in EVM, ready to run.

Sure, it's a very different beast, but I still find it really _cool_.

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Post by Ygg2 » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 10:33 AM UTC

Bluestein wrote: post #3

Is -this-, finally, the killer app? or, the way Skynet comes about?

No. And No.

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Post by joosters » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 10:36 AM UTC

flixic wrote: post #8

joosters wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never mind 100 years in the future, this game of life implementation isn't running even now . As the article says, it would cost $80 just to register the code to run it, never mind funding each compute step. And yet your phone could compute the next 100 years of this ethereum GoL calculations in far less than a second!

I wouldn't bet on my phone's processor being functional in the XXIInd century, but this code will likely still be in EVM, ready to run. Sure, it's a very different beast, but I still find it really _cool_.

But that's my point, it is already NOT in the EVM, the cost is so high that the author didn't commit the code to it - ethereum fell at the very first hurdle!