http://programmer.ie/tags/perturbation/ Recent content in Perturbation on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:34:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/05-kill-it/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:34:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/05-kill-it/ <h1 id="digital-life-05-kill-it">Digital Life 05: Kill It</h1> <p>We have been too kind to our systems.</p> <p>So far we have:</p> <ul> <li>initialized them carefully,</li> <li>given them clean environments,</li> <li>watched them evolve,</li> <li>selected examples that behave interestingly,</li> <li>and mostly left them alone.</li> </ul> <p>That is a dangerous way to study anything that looks life-like.</p> <p>A structure that persists when nothing interferes with it may be interesting.</p> <p>But biological systems do something harder.</p> <p>They persist in a world that keeps interfering with them.</p>