Comment by giulio on Resurrecting all humans ever lived as a technical problem · 2021-11-08T18:23:20.112Z · LW · GW

Love your subreddit (but I don’t like Reddit much and I almost never use it).

Comment by giulio on Resurrecting all humans ever lived as a technical problem · 2021-11-08T18:22:00.466Z · LW · GW

Some kind of time travel, or at least time scanning (Option 3) seems the best option.

Comment by giulio on Brief question about Conway's Game of LIfe and AI · 2014-09-08T14:13:47.815Z · LW · GW

William Poundstone's "The Recursive Universe" reports Conway's persuasive analysis of alive, intelligent Life patterns in Life. Conway thinks that alive patterns would emerge, survive, propagate and evolve in huge random fields with very low density (say one on cell per billion).