Game Of Life - How a single mutation destroys the whole organism

Based on this digital clock made in Game Of Life: codegolf.stackexchange.com/qu...
You can play with it yourself here: codegolf.stackexchange.com/qu...

[@aepokkvulpex]

I love how the effect looks fungal or cancerous. Makes me think about my own fragility 🙃

[@Enderplays12]

It's crazy how analogous to rogue cancer cells this is.

[@drdca8263]

Thanks for recording and posting this! Very convenient for people like me too lazy-or-busy(mostly lazy) to try it ourselves

[@spinnis]

Holy shit... A single pixel amongst hundreds of thousands...

[@askarmuk]

Amogus

[@pentzilam]

@@askarmuk exeis malakia sto kefali?

[@jimbarchuk]

As always, data is awesome, scary and beautiful.

[@reversethings5092]

Bet this will get recommended to everyone

[@albertosara416]

equal parts satisfying and terrifying

[@kattenelvis1778]

This is such a wonderful demonstration on chaotic systems and entropy.

[@gabrielpichorim8191]

I feel like a quantum fluctuation could start something like this in the universe just by random chance

[@muhammedberkonder7802]

they happen all the time, it's comes with the universe

[@ker6349]

I mean, there's the idea that a rip in the universe would spread at the speed of light and we would instantly enter into the same nonexistence before existence without even knowing it. But if that happens, we won't be around to worry about it. I think it's the false vacuum theory

[@Solotocius]

Nothing is random

[@kingacrisius]

@@Solotocius Quantum mechanics are literally random. Not hard to predict, they are completely random.

[@ideegeniali]

I thought it would be more resilient!

[@uwufemboy5683]

Unlike real life, Conway's game of life has no resilience to noise; I think this video illustrates this point quite well

[@amaice]

why is a broken clock so terrifying

[@b.s.7693]

it isnt 😂

[@GreyKnightsVenerable]

@@b.s.7693 It is, because it gives a strong message to how fragile we are in the face of system error.

[@drdca8263]

@@GreyKnightsVenerable Well, it may represent that well, but it doesn't prove it. I suspect that all GoL structures might be inherently more fragile than many irl structures (but that doesn't mean that some irl structures can't also be extremely fragile.)
Deleting a random proton from your body would not kill you, much less destroy all life on earth.

[@user-vy4xk3eb2o]

that is how cancer works.

[@henryambrose8607]

More interesting is changing a single cell in a way that doesn't destroy the entire system but instead makes it not work as intended.

[@amanzepd5071]

Did you see how much damage it did?

[@sapphicjade6375]

that's ROM hacking in a nutshell

[@Ivan-Ivan-Ivan-Ivan]

That's how cancer works

[@ejfex]

not much homeostasis