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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by alimov on Friday May 06, 2022 @02:42AM (#31282025)
> “By round 190, the researchers had hit on a new surprise: The huge dynamic swings in the population of each lineage had started giving way to smaller waves. This stabilization suggested that the lineages were no longer competing to replicate. Instead, they had started to interact as a network and cooperate in a state of quasi-stable coexistence.”

A very interesting experiment. I know this is reaching, but I wonder what round human being would be on right now if we were in a “test tube” of sorts.

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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by hnlmorg on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:49AM (#31282511)
It is a less reaching idea than you first suggest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by swalsh on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:54AM (#31285110)
Maybe those UAP's are just the species that started the experiment checking in on it's progress.
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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by meowface on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:28PM (#31287052)
Why would they not make themselves undetectable when doing so? Also, if they were actually actually simulators, they would presumably be able to observe everything in the simulation in arbitrary detail without disturbing it or injecting themselves into it.
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Re:In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem by hnlmorg on Friday May 06, 2022 @01:46PM (#31287926)
Unless their stimulus is an intended part of the experiment.
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