Mastodawn

@graeme I don't understand the wiggly bits, can you explain? I'm enjoying the stories in the blog though. I'm sorry, I wish I had more to say because I am very much enjoying them. I'm just a bit cognitively restricted today.

@vesperys they're cellular automata, computational simulations of life that roughly parallel the progression of life described in the stories. They're running generations through a simulator that attempts to solve the problem "how do I live a bit longer". Movement costs, cells with food replenish. As they progress they learn to communicate via scent, clump, specialize.

Or they're wiggly bits to watch at the park while your kids play

Whatever you need them to be

@graeme Huh so my intuition about it relating to self-propagating algorithms in a Steve Grand book I read years ago wasn't so far off the mark, good to know. Thanks.

@vesperys more than you know. The universe only has one algorithm, we call it thermodynamics and it started 14 billion years ago.

Little bits that mostly don't suck all trying their best to be a universe. You yourself are just made of bits that wanted to be better than average and so far have been able to hold on.

Life starts with a boundary and it's all downhill from there ;)

@graeme *panting tongue retracts briefly with a head tilt* Piss rolls down the hill, I guess.

@vesperys and the channel was carved ever deeper

@graeme I think you'd be really good at psytrance.