[shapiro]

Hey guys, I made this, I would be happy to tell you more about it. The idea is pretty simple, static 2x2 blocks are replaced by another shape that creates a lot of growth. That replacement is treated like the birth of a new organism. The goal of the organism is to produce more 2x2 blocks. It can have slight mutations that make it faster to produce these blocks. What's interesting about this is that rather than having reproduction be a given, an organism spends it's whole life building a structure that lets it reproduce. It can collide with other organisms and disrupt them. It's simple, but it's open ended and is fast to compute.

[jakeogh]

Nice. I feel like there's a relation to[1], but it's not obvious to me how to apply it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11078635