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Ivan Yevenko

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I'm an Artificial Life researcher. WTF is Artificial Life? I also run a hacker house for researchers: calculus.house There's no particular problem I'm trying to solve, but what I'm really interested in is developing an intuitive understanding of how and why life happens. Some of the questions I'll need to answer to get there: I believe creating artificial life is a good test for whether you understand life, but an even better test is designing life. This is analogous to both creating AGI and solving the alignment problem. I'm also certain that computer simulations are by far the most effective tool for studying artificial life. More on my research philosophy. [Notes] [Sandbox] Why do complex patterns emerge in continuous cellular automata? This seems like a question that cannot have a simple answer, much less a mathematically rigorous proof of its correctness. However, by assuming the existence of analytical forms of solutions to a general class of CA's, I find a set of conditions that

I'm an Artificial Life researcher. WTF is Artificial Life? I also run a hacker house for researchers: calculus.house There's no particular problem I'm trying to solve, but what I'm really interested in is developing an intuitive understanding of how and why life happens. Some of the questions I'll need to answer to get there: What is complexity? How does it emerge? What is information? How do you describe life as an informational process? What is computation? How and why does matter compute? I believe creating artificial life is a good test for whether you understand life, but an even…

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