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EARLY MIT CULTURE. “A “tool'' is someone who attends class regularly, is always to be found in the library when no class is meeting, and gets straight As. A “hacker'' is the opposite: someone who never goes to class, who in fact sleeps all day, and who spends the night pursuing recreational activities rather than studying." https://lnkd.in/dF3neaQ View in LinkedIn

BEYONG HUMAN IMAGINATION. "Just as in the pre-Cambian explosion, an observer could not possibly have imagined the later diversity of life forms." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

TOOLS AND HACKERS. "The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. Popular opinion at MIT posited that there are two kinds of students, tools and hackers.” https://lnkd.in/dF3neaQ View in LinkedIn

PREDICTING UNPREDICTABILITY. "It is best to not to guide evolution and let natural selection find its own solutions because we cannot possibly imagine what is out there." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

ENCODING. "Code can be encoded in many different ways, ranging from simple substitutions to more complex transformations, such as encryption or compression. Methods vary according to the granularity of encoding, space and run- time overheads." https://lnkd.in/dHTSZ_H View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE BREEDS COMPLEX. "It is also instructive to observe how little code is required to achieve seemingly complex strategies. The progenitor organism in Tierra used 80 instructions." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

GROWING COMPLEXITY. "Given that the instructions and operations of the organisms are those of a simple von Neumann assembly language, the ecologies can be seen as a model of viral evolution, indicating that given sufficient time there is no barrier to viruses spontaneously developing sophisticated behaviour." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

TIERRA. "The electronic ecologies that eventuated were astounding. The instruction sequences that serve as "organism" analogues spontaneously developed sophisticated behaviours. Among these were complex patterns in memory, flocking, parasitism and immunity, predator-prey relationships and sexual reproduction." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

UNPONDERABLE. "Trying to imagine the marvels that pour forth once you've successfully tapped a computer as elaborate as the Net is as futile as trying to map the future of a society, or of a life – or of life itself." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL JUNGLE. "In short, by infecting the Net with self-replicating code, Ray aims to turn it into a jungle." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn