Ahh, the famous Conway's Game of Life. Unfortunately since I've interacted with this type of cellular automata so much, this emblem speaks "Game of Life" to me more than it does "Hacker". I wonder if there is any other logo/emblem that is less tied to something and could be adopted as the official hacker emblem.
Good to see that it exists in real. I will explore this thing. I am designing my personal website and thinking to put it there to express my belief in hacker culture.