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  1. Blaise Agüera y Arcas implemented a computational simulation of what amounts to the RNA world hypothesis using a modified form of brainfuck language to encode the evolvable information-carrying and self-replicating substrate as executable programs:

    "Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction" (2024)
    arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108

    Was quite the amusing talk that he gave - and even more amusing that someone noted his paper in brainfuck's wikipedia page.

    #brainfuck #RNAworld #evolution