here are the proceedings of the 2022 conference: https://direct.mit.edu/isal/isal/volume/33 - some papers that seem worth a skim, from those proceedings (I really wish lesswrong had hover-to-preview, use a chrome tab group or something to open the links quickly then flip through them fast):
but as a person who’s always focused on approximations and is kind of beginner at actually doing the math I like to read about, I can only offer a pointer to the conference.
no insider knowledge; I have some outsider knowledge that makes me optimistic that there will be interesting things to be learned from people there. alife research has been focusing on things like https://chakazul.github.io/lenia.html, and now particle lenia, https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/particle-lenia/, and it connects well with other research on related topics that I’ve had a hobby of making indexes of, eg this recent post.
here are the proceedings of the 2022 conference: https://direct.mit.edu/isal/isal/volume/33 - some papers that seem worth a skim, from those proceedings (I really wish lesswrong had hover-to-preview, use a chrome tab group or something to open the links quickly then flip through them fast):
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/114/102926
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/115/102925
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/107/102974
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/105/102949
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/101/102914
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/100/102915
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/98/102927
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/93/102951
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/87/102900
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/86/102901
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/84/102907
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/80/102870
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/79/102871
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/77/102902
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/75/102954
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/74/102891
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/66/102969
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/65/102936
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal/33/59/102876
but as a person who’s always focused on approximations and is kind of beginner at actually doing the math I like to read about, I can only offer a pointer to the conference.