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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
Cellular Automata in the Game of Life
The game of life is wonderful and shows all kind of stuff about how things can evolve without the creator understanding anything more than the power of learning in a way. John Conway said he wondered whether it was immoral to shut the computer off after he got into a particularly interesting play of the game of life. He finds it hard to believe that anybody who's ever had children cannot believe in free will. On the other hand, this makes it crystal clear.
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