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eggsyntax 2024-10-22T16:42:09.710849Z

This is just incredibly cool as well as important. The authors show artificial life spontaneously emerging from a soup of random code, under a range of conditions. Their main output is https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108, but I strongly recommend starting with the lead author's more generally accessible article on the work: https://nautil.us/in-the-beginning-there-was-computation-787023/