2012-07-09

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2012-07-09

Title text: 2012-07-09

Votey

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Hey look!

I built a

If we define life as

Program

Any piece of information

That self-replicates!

That can gelf-replicate when physically embodied

This counts as life!

Neat.

But if I press ctrl+z, it snips out the self-replication part. Now it's non-life!

If I do it again, it goes back to being life!

Okay

Okay.

And again. And again! And again! Alive, dead, alive, dead, ali-

Stop that!

What? It's just a weird quirk of the universe. I have a whole computer that just creates and destroys life all day long.

I don't

Want to think

About this.

Somewhere, outside reality.

Hey, what if we make a universe where all meaningful divisions are arbitrary?

Ha!

Votey Transcript

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Woops. V life no life

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