Timeline for Program that creates larger versions of itself (quine-variant)
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| Jun 13, 2020 at 2:46 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | @MarkJeronimus Yup. Those were the inspiration for this answer: I saw that there were organisms that get smaller with each generation, so I figured it would probably be possible to create one that would get larger with each generation. And sure enough. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 23:09 | comment | added | Mark Jeronimus | When you run it long enough you get genomes which create smaller offspring, which eventually self-destruct. The 'mother' at the center stays alive. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 2:28 | history | answered | Sophie Swett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |