Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Botworld: a cellular automaton for studying self-modifying agents embedded in their environment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 14 April 2014 04:21:03PM 2 points [-]

It's not because a simple loop can alter a lot of space. It's because Core Wars world is crowded both in space and time.

That's exactly the same thing oly phrased concrete vs. abstract.

make a communication/energy/matter bottleneck

Thats an abstract formulation of my proposal to "Using a limit to the range of mov-instructions would have made a significant difference".