You can put out an eater barrier, but those things aren’t impermiable
Do we have a proof for that? Or a reason to have high confidence that such a thing is not possible? How about preemptive strikes? That is, an expanding field that obliterates all dangerous things it its path.
I found it a funny thought experiment to imagine that this conversation happens between Game of Life agents discussing the Standard Model. The kind of fool-proof defenses you are discussing might be impossible in our world, too. But according to this analogy, it might be possible in the Game of Life world that after a tumultuous initial period, the world becomes a safer place, and agents with 99.9% effective defenses emerge.
Eater barriers only ever really defend against a few types of collision. That’s just a function of how eaters work—they only ever eat a small subset of things that can be projected at them.
I don’t think anyone has ever created an impermeable wall in the GOL. I am pretty sure that such a thing is impossible—though AFAIK, that has never been proved.
Do we have a proof for that? Or a reason to have high confidence that such a thing is not possible? How about preemptive strikes? That is, an expanding field that obliterates all dangerous things it its path.
I found it a funny thought experiment to imagine that this conversation happens between Game of Life agents discussing the Standard Model. The kind of fool-proof defenses you are discussing might be impossible in our world, too. But according to this analogy, it might be possible in the Game of Life world that after a tumultuous initial period, the world becomes a safer place, and agents with 99.9% effective defenses emerge.
Eater barriers only ever really defend against a few types of collision. That’s just a function of how eaters work—they only ever eat a small subset of things that can be projected at them.
I don’t think anyone has ever created an impermeable wall in the GOL. I am pretty sure that such a thing is impossible—though AFAIK, that has never been proved.