I absolutely love this.<p>One of the more poetic reasons why I like Ethereum VM is because it seems likely to keep running for a very, very long time. I would take a Long Bet that it will still exist 100 years in the future.<p>With that in mind, this might end up being the longest "continuously running" (both words with some heavy qualifiers) Conway's Game of Life implementation.
Clearly the next step is to move NAO to the blockchain, so we can play nethack in the most immutable and verifiable way possible!
(Congrats to OP. I find the project fascinating nonetheless :))
Suggestion- Could we implement soup search with the blockchain?(<a href="https://catagolue.hatsya.com/apgsearch" rel="nofollow">https://catagolue.hatsya.com/apgsearch</a>)<p>The 'largest distributed search site of cellular automata', Catagolue, which discovers new patterns everyday, has enormous potential of pattern finding, trading and synchronous exhibiting.
Could we embed soup search as a backend PoW
Deploy this to production on NEAR and fund it every step directly with staking rewards that are piped in from a small endowment and it will run forever.<p>Hell, I’ll give you the tokens myself just to see it go!<p>Good excuse to play with Rust or AssemblyScript <a href="https://docs.near.org/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.near.org/</a>
Could undecidability similar to that of Conway or another halting problem be used to better solve security of financial transactions?<p>If it’s ubersecure maybe it would outperform Moore’s Law, quantum computing, and the hyper-intelligent AIs.