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What If Intelligence Didn't Evolve? From Noise to Programs in Brainfuck [video]

3 points| guld | 3 days ago |youtube.com

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guld|3 days ago

TLDR of the video:

Complex self-replicating programs emerging spontaneously from random noise byte strings with:

- zero mutation

- a sharp phase transition that looks like gelation

- and a proof that blocking deep symbiogenetic ancestry trees prevents the transition entirely

- written in a variant of BrainFuck that can read and write its own code called BFF.