Competitive Self-Play

Re:Competitive Self-Play by vikiomega9 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:13PM (#15453991)

Something similar is described in Ted Chiang's Lifecycle of Software Objects

https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the...

"...We could run a society of them at hothouse speeds without any risk of them going feral, and see what they produce"

I'm curious to see if there's a collection of similar works that go down this trope, or if it is indeed something that's only recently emerged.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by abecedarius on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:58PM (#15454291)

Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon. Mid-20th century.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by 4dahalibut on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:07PM (#15454906)

It makes me so happy that the three parents to this comment all have the stories posted online for free, with the authors permission. There's definitely a correlation with this strain of hard science fiction.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by wazoox on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:45AM (#15457267)

"Microcosmic God" doesn't seem freely available to me.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by jonny_eh on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:48PM (#15462562)

Third google result for me: http://1pezeshk.com/wp-content/pics/2013/01/microcosmicgodth...

Hopefully it's legal and accessible for you.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by wazoox on Saturday October 14, 2017 @05:37PM (#15474456)

Thank you.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by doormatt on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:12PM (#15454370)

THANK YOU!

I have been looking for this short story for decades.

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