New Paper Shows Self-Replicating Programs Spontaneously Evolve Cooperation

A new paper, Tapes Together Strong, shows self-replicating programs under a shared energy budget spontaneously evolve cooperation, unifying game theory of cooperation with the emergence of computation.

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