Xtreme Thanks 08

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Overview

In the Thanksgiving spirit, Biota Live is recording four shows in four days to bring together people who wouldn't normally participate in Biota Live and also give a chance for regular participants to call in too.

Show Notes, Times and Links

The call in number will be +1 646-200-0640

If you want to talk on a specific topic (either below or another one you suggest, please make contact!

Overview of Topics

(Evolving show notes)

Outline for an Artificial-life Course or Curriculum

What We Have to Be Thankful For

luxury of time and computing power to do such esoteric explorations as artificial life

correspond all this to cosmology, biology, space xploration, nano-synthology, debates over origins and religion

new soup called the Net

Hobby of Artificial Life

The luxury of time, computing power and esoteric explorations. Some of this would talk about how hobbyists move into academia and industry, which I think is critical. Re-enforcement that we should look at other engineering hobbies for metrics in terms of user/developer numbers to create super-projects, monetization, and percolating back into popular consciousness.

How Alife could help develop strong AI

How to create a simulation that keeps evolving and does not "flatten out" once it has achieved a goal like walking