On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:16:05 -0700 (PDT), John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 1:10:14 PM UTC-7, Robert Kern wrote: >> On 2015-04-28 07:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> I do believe he is trying to make a crude joke. > >I agree, that's what he's doing. And I find it ironic, since he started this >thread, and seemed to invite a serious discussion of the topic. > I did start out serious. I thought I was making a pretty funny joke too. I though both were allowed. I guess not. Sorry What I was fishing for were personal stories of programmers that had tried the tit for tat program challenge. >I thought that Patrick Grim's analysis was very interesting, showing that the >Spatialized Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (SIPD) could emulate the Wireworld >cellular automaton, which is a Turing-complete system. Thus, the SIPD, a >seemingly simple system at first glance, includes configurations which are >formally undecidable in the Gödelian sense. I'm not sure whether Grim proved >that an SIPD which includes the Tit for Tat strategy could emulate Wireworld, >but it seems likely that one could be built. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
