you have a computer show the result of random simulations—visual simulations where at each timestep some simple rule determines the next timestep’s result. you get the result of one of those—a png—then you have to guess at the rule that produced it. leaderboards and stuff for people who are best at reverse engineering the rule. motivates a deeper science of reverse-engineering lifelike simulations/systems.
game stephen wolfram would like:
you have a computer show the result of random simulations—visual simulations where at each timestep some simple rule determines the next timestep’s result. you get the result of one of those—a png—then you have to guess at the rule that produced it. leaderboards and stuff for people who are best at reverse engineering the rule. motivates a deeper science of reverse-engineering lifelike simulations/systems.