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Steve Grand
Personal blog · stevegrand.wordpress.comscienceai
Steve Grand's personal blog at stevegrand.wordpress.com covers science and ai. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Where do those damn atoms go? (2009)”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Steve Grand, creator of the Creatures artificial life games, is linked for posts on the body's constant renewal of its atoms and cells. Commenters cite the post when discussing how much of the body is replaced over time.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Artificial Life in real life
Most-linked posts?
- Where do those damn atoms go? (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-14
What Hacker News says?
I think this applies to most atoms in the body over time: https://stevegrand.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/where-do-those-d... But while it applies to many cells over varied lengths of time (up to many years), it doesn't apply to all cells. https://www.livescience.com/33179-does-human-body-replace-ce... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-body-replace-itself-s... So the idea does apply but not exactly as you claim and…
Comment linking /2009/01/12/where-do-those-damn-atoms-go/
on “Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old”Submitted Where do those damn atoms go? (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1189358... http://stevegrand.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/where-do-those-da... I don't know any specific place to point to, but I have heard this from scientists that I know. None the less the point I was trying to make was more that the body is in flux not simply a static thing.
Comment linking /2009/01/12/where-do-those-damn-atoms-go/
on “The Ghost Protocol – Digital Identity for Immortals”If you missed Creatures, it was a series of games something like the Sims but with a much more advanced biological simulation running underneath. It's been over a decade and nothing since has even approached the ambition of these games. The old games are available on gog.com. The author's blog: http://stevegrand.wordpress.com/
Comment linking /
on “Spore? Black & White? Meh. 'Creatures' creator working on new alife game? Nice.”