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Re: Optimizing for maximal serendipity or how Alan Turing misdirected ALife

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on May 30, 2020; 7:12pm
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I guess I should be concrete.   Suppose the instruction set is 6502.

 

Below, if we start at the first position, A9, the A register would be loaded with the value A0, then there would be relative branch.   However, if we start executing at the second, A0, the Y register would be loaded with 10 and then there would be subroutine call.   One could imagine modeling the effects with a constraint solver to embed two distinct programs in the same byte sequence.   Neither would be encrypted, but one of them wouldn’t be visible without changing the readers reference frame.   I don’t think a reverse engineer would spot it just from a disassembly. 

 

A9 A0 10 20 10

 

 

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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Optimizing for maximal serendipity or how Alan Turing misdirected ALife

 

Marcus,

you write:
The experience of being out-of-phase with a conversation has the same gist.

You summarized much of my experience with Friam. Can you say more about

how it is like homomorphic encryption, but in plain sight? There is a sense that homomorphic encryption (relative to the privacy discussion) is in plain sight

(public key), so I am guessing you have something different in mind.

 

Jon


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