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One Man's Quest To Build True Artificial Life

Posted by Unknown on from the emacs-already-does-that dept.

Atriune writes "The creator of the renowned Creatures artificial life series is at it again. Fifteen years after the initial success of the Creatures Trilogy, Steve Grand continues his quest to go beyond simulation, and create real artificial life." It's hard to tell if the approach is realistic, but it is certainly novel. Perhaps this will succeed in the areas the Lisp hackers of the '80s failed.

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:/. News Network by zill · · Score: 3, Funny

    RTFA can lead to the following complications:
    DDoS attacks
    Time wastage
    Complaints about the article being mutli-paged

    The editors must have realized this and did us all a favor.

  2. Lisp Hackers? by makubesu · · Score: 4, Funny

    A beautiful language like Lisp is hardly one that you "hack" stuff together in. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go find a missing parenthesis.