Has it helped in anyway?
I have watched it now;
Trivial Geography, the idea that you can only reproduce etc in predefined parts of the sim was something to think about.
Also Selfish Mimics; (wrote this while listening to it)
Defection is not just when an agent mimics or guesses the password; in DB it is also the kin not using the password and others not being able to recognise the kin not using the password.
We never did implement a (how many of my friends have you killed) tag AFAIK. Perhaps a (how much nrg have you gained from my species) or ‘morality’ sysvars would be useful, an overview, without using individual tags and observed behaviour, something the bots aren’t that good at, to allow a bot to make a judgement on the behaviour of others.
It just seems to me that kin dropping the password recognition system should have a downside, interested to know how it might be considered to work in unicellular asexual life. Why DB shows the trait of cannabalism so often when life obviously finds advantages to not mutate this way very much. (Or what disadvantages life presents to those that do) (I know; old question, pls forgive)
Plus the way he used several factors to define acceleration was interesting, (Breve swarm) although, as the bots have a very microscopic view of their world, it might be harder to recreate the same formula for our bots.