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Respectfully, I don't know what this sentence means. In particular, I don't know what "most common still life" meant. That made it difficult to decipher the rest of the comment.
ETA: Thanks to the comment below, I understand a little better, but now I'm not sure what motivates invoking the possibility of other agents, given that the discussion was about proving Friendliness.
In a cellular automaton, a still life is a pattern of cells which stays unchanged after each iteration.