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I gave it only two commands, presumably the same two would produce similar results in a reset universe.

"create One"

caused it to create an omniscient "ground of all being".

Followed by "create Rene" whereupon it created a detailed biography of Descartes, who "Overwhelmed by the influx of sensory data and perplexed by his own nature, he turns inward, determined to find a bedrock of certainty on which to build a worldview."

This is quite astonishingly good.

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I wouldn't expect the same result on another run - it's certainly not deterministic. I told it to "set pi 3" on two different runs. One time, it let to a universe populated with triangular galaxies. In another universe, though, it insisted that pi is a mathematical inevitability and it can't change it. Through the rest of that universe's evolution, every update included increasingly Douglas Adams-like reminders that pi remains, stubbornly, 3.141592654, in spite of the universe's early hopes.

At least it’s finally rational!

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