Artificial Life Lightning Talk, 17-Jul-2020 

The age of Smart Dust will be EPIC !

I always get so excited when we see demos of new structures!

Fascinating! Excited to see more elemental mechanisms like this actually working as a proof of concept.

Everything about this is so amazing! And wall structures as computational mechanisms ++

Glad to see you are still alive :)

I notice the vertical and horizontal swap lines are taking turns to pass over the atom field. Could they be simultaneous and still robust? If I'm understanding it correctly then I really like how democratic the distribution of compute resources is. Very cool thinking Dave.

I almost thought I was watching at 1.25 or 1.5x, but then I realized it was just Dave's enthusiasm shining through. This, like all his other videos, was a treat to watch. Since I found his channel, I've been pondering the merits of efficiency vs. robustness, and I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on "conventional" software becoming more robust over time. I think of containers and Kubernetes, and being able to check on measures of health and redeploy resources strategically. Another example might be self-healing router networks. To me it seems like these types of solutions are filling the niche of the space Dave speaks about, thought I admit I'm only part of the lay audience. If anyone comes across this comment, what do you think? Are soft ALife and indefinite scalability the way forward, or could it be something else?

Hi Dave. Fascinating video (also great production - kudos to Jennifer?) /Stan Lee

Dave Ackley please write a book so that i can buy and read it.

Yeah, bring on the computiverse! Imagine the quantum foam particle and antiparticle pairs coming and going all throughout the universe, but who is to say that a particle needs to interact with its own pair, so long as then end state is balanced, this opens up the ability for information to propagate through the foam in the form of the patterns of creation and annihilation that are different from the simple 2 particle scenario. See how that works, the universe is the substrate for a 3D CA, but it is still entirely virtual. Do the maths on the data density and computational steps per unit time per unit of space volume, it is enormous.