Brief question about Conway's Game of LIfe and AI

Conway’s Game of Life is Turing-complete. Therefore, it is possible to create an AI in it. If you created a 3^^3 by 3^^3 Life board, setting the initial state at random, presumably somewhere an AI would be created. Would this AI somehow take over the whole game board, if given enough time?

Would this be visible from the top, as it were?

EDIT: I probably meant 3^^^3, sorry. Also, by generating at random, I meant 50% chance on. But any other chance would work too, I suspect.

Would this be visible from the top, as it were?

EDIT: I probably meant 3^^^3, sorry. Also, by generating at random, I meant 50% chance on. But any other chance would work too, I suspect.

You can put out an eater barrier, but those things aren't impermiable

Do we have a proof for that? Or a reason to have high confidence that such a thing is not possible? How about preemptive strikes? That is, an expanding field that obliterates all dangerous things it its path.

Eater barriers only ever really defend against a few types of collision. That's just a function of how eaters work - they only ever eat a small subset of things that can be projected at them.

I don't think anyone has ever created an impermeable wall in the GOL. I am pretty sure that such a thing is impossible - though AFAIK, that has never been proved.

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I found it a funny thought experiment to imagine that this conversation happens between Game of Life agents discussing the Standard Model. The kind of fool-proof defenses you are discussing might be impossible in our world, too. But according to this analogy, it might be possible in the Game of Life world that after a tumultuous initial period, the world becomes a safer place, and agents with 99.9% effective defenses emerge.

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