Eco-System In Second Life
Listening to: Straight to My Heart - Sting
New World Notes has a
fascinating interview with Laukosargas Svarog the creator of an entire
eco-system in Second Life. It’s one of those ‘jaw-agape-holy-crap’ kind of a achievements…
but done simply and pragmatically:
Even this early into its creation, she’s noticed some limited forms
of emergence (the holy grail of artificial life developers) particularly in the development
of her plant life.
“It’s very sensitive to very small
changes,” she says, “like if a gene emerges which gives a plant an extra seed in its
lifetime, that can cause huge growth in its locale. And the opposite of course, one
less causes thinning growth. I’ve also seen the same color become a dominant gene
so all the meadow cup plants became blue once. Simple things like that emerge quite
often.”
All this sounds like an invaluable experiment
in artificial life or testing theories on evolutionary development, so I ask if she’s
interested in finding out anything from Svarga.
While an amazing story in and of itself… it’s a real credit to the platform that
Linden Labs has created.
src: Boing Boing
