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  • Why is anyone searching for videos related to "Self-replicator" if they have no clue what significance it has or where/how it exists.

  • Another cool feature of conway's game of life is that it doesn't expand in a disorganized manner, nor does it die out really fast. Rather, it has just the right balance between life and death to make it incredably interesting and chaotic. In fact it is just this chaos which gives it its name, as when John COnway came up with it, he said it was so unpredictable and complicated, only life could match it in those categories.

  • THis pattern is from something called John Conway's game of life for anyone whom is interested in knowing, (I would suggest doing some research into that, as it is a very interesting "game") What makes it so noteworthy is the fact that, while most unorganized initial pattterns tend to evolve chaotically, sometimes they organize themselves into moving patterns which endlessly traverse the field, (such as the little shapes, which are actually called gliders, that this video mentioned.)

  • ok. . .so. . . . .what is it?

  • Yeah well, that's shit.

  • A REPLICATOR?!? A REAL REPLICATOR?!? ARE U SERIOUS?! WOW!!!!!..................... wait, is that a good thing? have these guys seen stargate at all? no, nevermind... i dont think these ones can make themselves out of just anything. or kill people.

  • What's a replicer?

  • Great to notice that many commenters have figured out that this is actually from Conway's Game of Life. Shame that it was not mentioned in the clip.

  • i unsubscribed when i realized the link is an advertisement.

  • lol double ended

  • Why do I have to wait 5 minutes for something 30 seconds long to load? I have the highest at&t internet connection!!!

  • @TheWillbraken bragplaining

    

  • After clicking the link in the description and reading it, I've come to the conclusion that this video doesn't explain well enough how significant this discovery is.

    Shame on you narrator >=(

  • o lord :|

  • NewScientists is stupid. This isn't a self replicating pattern- it's a glider. HighLife has a self replicating simple pattern but it's impossible for it to evolve since the environment of all life games doesn't allow simple small incremental changes to improve. Stupid sensationalist news.

  • This is really nothing new, except maybe that it uses a glider tape. It just destroys the pattern and recreates it elsewhere... that's a "spaceship", in Game of Life terms, and there are lots of them. Unless I'm missing something, in which case, someone please tell me.

  • o_O! THIS IS A GREAT DISCOVERY, as a body, doubled!

  • So I've downloaded Golly just to see this for myself and I'm still utterly confused. What exactly is the meaning/purpose of this discovery? What can it be used for?

    Sorry for acting spoiled, I'm used to NewScientist videos answering a question like that.

  • Wow there are manny morons on this video try converting science to money and politics. There is no invention in science is useless.

  • @donggiao3000 Wow there are MANY morons on this video who cannot spell simple words.

  • @dragonx13x Yea try to learn a new language in 6 months and type perfectlly good asshole!

  • @donggiao3000 Perfectly WELL* would be the correct terminology, asshole.

  • replicker? really? its REPLICA

  • woah.

  • @olyfag

    Right... You obviously don't understand what I meant. In a SIMULATION

    anything can happen. It's not a big deal to virtually model something.

    What would be a big deal is to actually make it work like that in real life.

    It's not about the visuals at all.

  • No offense to anyone here, but as an enduser and not a programmer, I have seen CGI in movies that have random movement of individual characters during massive battlescenes which is pretty cool, so a computer program that self replicates sticks doesn't seem all that big a deal. Neither the video nor the article explains why this is a programming breakthrough.

  • Umm.. as far as I can see this is a neat computer animation.

    Meaning... It's nothing of real value. As in, the real thing would be it in motion real life.

    Creating a unit that is able to replicate itself.

    Until that happens it's jut a neat theory.

  • @Shard113

    Science is not about fulfilling your visual demandings by Hollywood-shitfest animations so if you can't accept that small steps are those which matter then why don't you just shut the fuck up.

  • @Shard113 It's researching the mathematics that would allow that to happen.

    That said, it's nor much of a breakthrough; there's not much here that wasn't done years ago.

  • Looks like someone failed using Microsoft pain if you ask me! :P

  • i think it's brilliant

  • looks like conway's game of life

  • so is this some kind of computer program, some highly futuristic AI? I just dont get what it is and why it is self replicating..

  • Why the fuck are there so many dislikes?

    My god, are there that many retards subscribed to this channel?

  • people play this as a game? I didn't see shit replicating. How about you double time that footage? Jesus

  • The picture was awful, couldn't make anything out or understand what was going on.

  • this is marvelous! imagine the possibilities, self repairing/recontruction.

    when a way is introduced to stop the replication one simple block of molecule can build you a house, repair your damaged car, basically everything around us.

    self replicating nanobots would boost biomedical science up sky high

  • @yuerong88 i think so far they only build random shapes :P

  • arent self replicating machines/programs/whatever useless? because if a machines replicates itself then the only thing the machine which got replicated can do is replicating itself again lol but maybe it could do other thing if you can program it

  • This would have been interesting but it was only confusing. At first I thought it was a physical thing, I had to read the description to see it's a programming construct. That lack of explanation as to where it takes place and why it is important make this a very bad video.

  • WTF was that ?

  • the mould in my shower is doing the same thing right now

  • @MERIO88 and the skin when i get a cut replicates too

  • @HeadShot360IN yes...don't know why but this vid reminds me the mould...

  • We're gonna die! XD

    Although it's primitive, it's a start...

  • This is pretty cool.

  • It's a freeware program called 'Golly' which uses the rules of "Conway's LIFE" to self-organize dots. 3 dots around a space means birth, less than 2 or more than 3 means death (suffocation or neglect) and 2 dots means mere survival.

    Anyways, a human has set the starting conditions, and this machine has emerged.

  • @quietthomas Yes, and the funny thing is that this is REALLY old, and people are amazed by this...

  • If they are going to create and publish a video, it should have some self-contained informational value so that people who see it can at least say that they know what it was about. Of course anyone who wants to learn MORE should follow the link, but the video should stand on its own. They should have started with a zoomed in view of the Game of Life and a couple sentences about the simple patterns that it follows, so the uninitiated can at least appreciate it without having to research it.

  • @blue30587 OK I'll explain what i understood :

    (this clip has been cut out of a longer one which is a paid video. which is probably why it's so unclear.)

    This is a computer program. The program is a graphical demonstration of a shape, when two of the same program are linked together they communicate without human interference and self-replicate. Which practically means artificial intelligence.

  • @sinahpr

    This is not artificial intelligence. It is a closed loop system that is defined by human input. Research it before you draw erroneous conclusions.

  • @blue30587 So true. I love how they described gliders as tiny shapes that travel in rows, which is probably the worst description I have ever heard. And, if you don't know this already (you being anyone who reads this, not you personally), gemini is not a replicator so the video is a lie

  • This is one of most outstanding things I have seen lately (but looking how does it replicate in golly, not here, as here you see almost nothing)

  • nar. its just a line.

  • My friend just showed me this program yesterday! Fucking incredible stuff

  • @Soundboy6 If people only knew.

  • not overly impressed, a better explanation may have been better

  • @Canadiansith read the article in the description

  • wtf!???? worst video ever...

  • That's amazing! Almost as amazing as Craig Venters breakthru when he created Synthetic Life from Non Life last month.

  • Lazy people. Click the link in the description for more info.

    From the website

    "The elusive self-replicator may provide insight into how life on Earth began"

  • forget food...lets replicate anythin we want!

  • no1 fucking cares

  • replicer lol

  • Uh...and why is this important? Does it have something to do with making artificial life?

  • now we need to replicate food

  • ALT+F4 this video

  • If I did "give a shit" then I would unsubscribe spot on!

    Just dont post such CRAP in the future!

    Rather, dont post if u dont got something usefull and interesting... and BTW LONGER THAN FUCKING 38 SECONDS!!!

    Make it a good minute or two.

  • @melis256 somebody wall the waaaaaaaambulance

  • @Pacober1

    Just shut the fuck up, and stop being so rᴟtaЯdɘƉ

  • @melis256 its not the end of the world if they put up a boring video every once in a while, sometimes science doesn't advance as much as fucktards like you want.

  • @Pacober1

    Well, it is almost better not putting anything up rather than putting this garbage up on youtube.

    Damn... this displays nothing in nature, not even DNA replicates like that -_-

    If it is usefull for anything, then please cure my ignorance by telling me... lol

  • @melis256 this video is a companion video to an article. Click the fucking link and you'll understand its relevance.

  • @melis256 its just an advance in mathematics

    think of it as having solved a very hard puzzle

  • Was this a computer simulation?

  • n1ce.. does someone know how long it takes to compute the 34 million generations on conventional computers? or is the program so optimized that it is no problem (i.e. lookup tables for already known patterns with some kind of multisampling of the grid to estimate collisions) ?

  • I am self replicating

  • What the fuck did i just watch?

  • @MadCatMk254

    agreed

  • @MadCatMk254 Its a cellar automation simulation. Check it out on wikipedia.

  • @MadCatMk254 It's a pattern from something called john conway's game of life, which is a form of cellular automata. (yes I know that probably doesn't help much but at least that gives you a starting point of what it is, since the video completely failed to explain it) Truth be told, that pattern they displayed doesn't replicate, it just moves across space and repeats the same number of cells and the same arrangement of them.

  • this is like your friend doing a backflip. sure its cool.... i guess, but it doesnt do anything

  • So...its teleporting?

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  • @zx1011 It would be nice if the video stood alone as the others do.

  • @zx1011 I was wondering the same thing

  • @zx1011 so basically this is a commericial to get you to the web page

  • @zx1011 to learn what it means dilhole. who the hell climbed up your ass and made you the on your period queen?

  • @imboredder when i looked at your username 1st time I thought it read "inbreeder"-how appropriate

  • @zx1011 good response.. you sure showed me..

  • @zx1011 Jesus man relax

  • @zx1011 Good point; they should have just shown a still image of the link for 37 seconds because we morons shouldn't expect a meaningful video on youtube.

  • @zx1011 because most of the posts by newscientistvideo aren't so cryptic and give some examples of how new findings might be used...

  • @zx1011 You keep fucking with me and you'll be hanging from a god damn tree

  • @zx1011 And you understood this? Just merely from watching the video you knew what was occurring? Well that is in all likelihood because you are a fucking liar and heard about it before you even watched the video. Otherwise only someone very familiar with the information could understand it... Which in any case, wouldn't make the person who doesn't understand it an idiot. But then again I wouldn't expect you to know that.

  • @oilers1go1 i didnt call anyone an idiot - i called them fucking morons - dipshit

  • @zx1011 Yeah... And since we don't really understand the universe, we shouldn't be thinking about that either?

  • @zx1011 word

  • @zx1011

    Because theirs usually COOL SHIT!

  • @zx1011 RAR ME ANGREE ME SMASH YOU DUM MI NOT

  • @zx1011 please dont try to act smart now. theres alot of other interesting stuff on their channel. you couldnt possibly deny that the "Surgical 'tube robot'" is easier to understand than this, just as an example

  • Wow, I want one for my home!!!

  • Somebody played with game of life, what an achievement...

  • Yeah, that was a god awful explanation of why anyone should find this interesting.

    The wikipedia article would be a good start for anyone who wants to pretend to care- Youtube won't let me post the link but find the Wikipedia page for " Conway's_Game_of_Life "

  • and how is this useful??

  • ....soo??

  • More detail please!

  • clear as mud

  • The Rules

    For a space that is 'populated': Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by loneliness. Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.  Each cell with two or three neighbors survives.

    For a space that is 'empty' or 'unpopulated' Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated.

  • Weren't you listening, people? They clearly stated that this is a simulation of a thing that's replicating with signals from rows of dots! How could they be any clearer?

  • The half baked videos on this channel suck. 37 seconds on nothing. unsubbing.

  • I think this video was an experiment on us...

  • Look, New Scientist deliberately withold information from these videos so that they can charge you for their online content on their website. What they don't seem to realise is that only idiots pay to go on their website. Anyone with half a brain will find the same informaion elsewhere for free.

    Actually, i think i might unsub from this channel. It stinks.

  • that was the worst description i have ever heard! "this system system replicates itself"??? robotic? program? living cells?

  • WTF IS THIS SHITTY SHIT! Give some more fucking detail about the fucking subject of the goddamn fucking video, you stupid fucking brits.

  • So ... Is this a representation of how DNA works ? Bacteria ? Nanobots ? Bunnies ?

  • Look up BILL GOSPER

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  • conways game of life?

  • The video itself doesn't even say that it's in the Game of Life. "An 'instruction tape,' made of tiny shapes that travel in rows." It's all anthropomorphized to the point of incoherence. I'd gladly watch a longer video that had more details; I'm close to unsubscribing from these short videos, full of fluff, which barely even address the science.

  • Just google Conway's Game of Life. That's all you need to do. God.

  • I'm sorry..but that was the lamest explanation of whatever you were trying to explain in the video ever..like seriously..doesn't really mean anything.

  • I can't tell if this has a meaning or not...

  • lol unsubed so meany usluss vids

  • if this is a program does anyone know where i can get a copy

  • Yeah, this looks like conway's life. Bunch of glider guns... it may be self-replicating, but without knowing what started it (chaos or programmer) it's difficult to care about.

    ...besides, conway's life can run in 3d now.

  • Wow!

  • Conway's Game of Life?

  • Wait what, who said that? What was that, was that a robot? Wait, who said that?

  • this is bullshit.....you guys suck at these videos

  • Learn to use google guys.

    These vids are normally short teasers, there's plenty about what they talk about all over this thing called the internet.

  • I believe that they're trying to show that this self-replicating feature happening unintended in a game simulation is similar to how DNA is an unintended, self-replicating feature stumbled upon within the rules and bounds of the physics and chemistry of our universe.

  • that thing is technically a fungus!

  • i don't understand

  • Self replicating... dots...?

  • The never ending tooth pic. Sweet!

  • Meh.

    I will live to see a robot given this simple command;

    Disassemble yourself here and reassemble yourself over there.

    Imagine the ultimate traveling carnival with a much lower risk of losing the fingers of carnies-in-stupor.

    Ferriswheel-bot--- activate disassembly!

    potatosackslide-bot--- activate assembly!

    Barfo-whirl-bot --- activate operation mode and calibrate ideal thrill mode for current demographic!

    Barf-cleanse-bot---activate regurgitation-detection mode and stand by!

  • my penis can do that

  • whats the point of this lol ?

  • ..? Is this nanotechnology? Software? What?

  • This video makes no sense. I shouldn't have to follow a link to understand it, because that just makes the video pointless. Why is it replicating? what is it replicating? What IS it? EXPLAIN.

  • if there is an "instruction tape telling it what to do"...then it is not "self-replicating", it is simply carrying out the instruction/programming.

  • just...?

  • Fascinating concept, but I wish the video was a bit longer.

  • lets be honest, not the first self replicating animal... all i need is a female and about 30 seconds :P

  • what?

  • For all the people wondering what this is: Follow the link to the article under the video.

  • how the fuck am i supposed to know what this is? no description no nothing..

  • @nerxboy Read more at: w-w-w newscientist com article m...

  • @WhiteDragon103 i didnt come here to watch a 30second clip and then go to another site... that fucking stupid.

  • Woop woop, I need some input here! What's the scale? What's it made of? What makes it work?

  • These newscientist vids are feckin head wrecking for feck sake could they not even take ten mins to explain a bit more about the subject, these vids are all the same just annoying teasers

  • This video was basically a definition of self-replication accompanied by laggy video material of dots forming a line.

  • geuss whAT? I DONT GIVE A FUCK!

  • Windows had this technology for years, it's called Copy/paste

  • explain plz -_-"

  • what the fuck is this?

  • is it me or is this not all that informative?

    i get replication, but of what is it replicating???

    help me out. i thought i was high but remembered i havent had anything today.

  • @Lawrence999999999 It's a self-replicating pattern in "Game of Life"

  • @PaXx thank you! i really did think i was high or something. im just gld i wasnt the only person confused about this. they really need to let the people watching(the average person, like me) know what theyre talking about just like you did. that one sentence you had would have been more than enough in the description box. these videos are a little hit and miss with me cause it is sometimes far above my head logically. i think i just said i was stupid! lol

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  • ahh yea that was effin informative

  • Ummm, huh?

  • The real fun starts when u create this in real life... A self replicating nanoid, that transform any matter (on a molecular level) around it, as a replica of itself. Replicating every last atom of planet earth... :(

    It will happen in the year 2012 LOL!!!!

  • 1. make self replicating pixels

    2. ?????

    3. PROFIT!!!

  • And soon the T1000 will show up...

  • @Meninx87 u dumbass

  • @B4IRUTUARU16 wtf is wrong with u?

  • you could have given a bit of an explanation!

  • wow some people spend way too much time on game of life.

  • Someone had to right the progam.