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Lots of people keep sharing articles about those xenobots with me.Not many people realize that this stuff has been on my radar for a while.In other news. UVM's evolutionary robotics lab is really fun if you are interested in literal artificial life. https://t.co/Bs3GUtR7zv
"Josh Bongard, an associate professor in UVM's Department of Computer Science, said the aim is to move the field of robotics forward — from robots that can perform physical tasks to robots that can actually think."https://t.co/FVq6TMWGXl
They're doing some really interesting things with robots.https://t.co/XnZk40P0uO
"A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines" https://t.co/QBmr19L6iAhttps://t.co/91tE2KXv98Neat.https://t.co/aHFezJ2cNW
Double headed flatworms?How do they poop?https://t.co/mu8keyx1IH
Cool.Do they poop?https://t.co/HwuDpVx8Er
Thinking about how they might be harvesting energy from the environment and the costs of reproduction being an inherent fitness function of an organism situated within a physical environment.https://t.co/zloKIMF2CS
More importantly, if we know how it eats and poops, We can kill it if it gets out of the lab.https://t.co/knOzDKDjoH
But technically as this project was done over the internet, a silicon based lifeform has transmitted itself thru the internet to be manifested in a physical living system.Replicators gonna replicate.https://t.co/3Y8QM6A2Rw
Is there a term for the concept of an AL-Foom => analagous to the AI-Foom space of ideas?I worry that they are the same exact thing and no one is looking at how being a physical entity imparts a natural and implied replicator fitness/utility function.https://t.co/ooewdMkY4R
Meta-fitness functions that act on the simulation itself don't really seem to be on most researchers radar.How confident are you in your ai-boxing methods?https://t.co/cOJQ0gguPF
I believe in anime parlance, these are 'angles'.We've created a prototype of Iruel out of frog cells. https://t.co/WRQ3FnRQd9
Isn't that awesome?https://t.co/BqhH8rQTR4
I hope it thinks we're cute.https://t.co/bkZkB5h5ix
Maybe it will wanna keep us as pets one day.https://t.co/PKIPPmYpZP
Angles and Daemons haunt my dreams.https://t.co/c3IuhGjA0s
I wish I was more coherent right now. I am half dreaming. My mind is stuck in word association land.https://t.co/U00QPRpTFn
Sorry, but if two ideas in my head conflict, and one stems from Von Neuman's notions on the origin of life and self-replicating systems and one stems from someone making up just-so stories about plausible evolutionary forces to support a world view... https://t.co/sCdkgZDJit
Literally stuck in a space of ideas that I've encoded as "we are the dreamers", but as a rhythmic pun. https://t.co/hNhKhkHCpR
Paperclips making paperclipsFlesh -> Machine -> FleshBut it's fractal.https://t.co/iijWTrLgA8
We are the Paperclip Maximizer, 🖇️And we are the Von Neumann machines,Wandering by lone star-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams;World-makers and world-breakers,Of whom the red Mars redeems:Yet we are the movers and shakersOf the earth for ever, it seems?
I should go to bed. Maybe I'll see some funny stuff in my dreams.https://t.co/CkxYY6qBqE
Slice[Sun -> solar system -> planet -> landmass -> society -> social support network -> house -> communal space -> game console -> game-as-platform -> playing the game]Tired: We Are the Universe Experiencing ItselfWired: A fractal Godhead.Inspired: https://t.co/oWXDy7EB9Y
If they are made out of frog cells, do you think the croak?https://t.co/vlXu7AafGZ
I went to bed shortly after that last tweet, then woke up 7 hours later with scary idea in my head.I wonder if this is 'automatic writing'? I know I was clanging pretty hard, so it's probably nonsense to everyone else until I can back fill the thoughts.https://t.co/d3kc2UMhaG