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Re:Follow-up of Kepler data yields more than 100 confirmed e... by labster on Sunday July 24, 2016 @05:11PM (#12154927)
We're already living in VR. Each of us are just threads running on the Universe VM. All we need to do is find a use after free bug in reality, and we'll be able to go wherever we want.
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Re:Follow-up of Kepler data yields more than 100 confirmed e... by brendonjohn on Sunday July 24, 2016 @06:47PM (#12155287)
Using what humans have learnt from developing software as an analogy for how the universe operates is fine until you start expecting human-type exploits to also be present in the rules of physics.

At that point you're basically hammering a square peg into a round hole that may not exist, expecting the analogy to hold true.

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Re:Follow-up of Kepler data yields more than 100 confirmed e... by maxander on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:00PM (#12156180)
If there are bugs in the universal algorithm, they'll not be the kind of bugs you find in C, but the kind you find in the ideal programming language. So research into better programming languages is crucial to human transcendence!
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