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Re:Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine ... by ollin on Sunday September 10, 2017 @06:35PM (#15214660)
From Scott Aaronson's "Memrefuting" post (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212):

> all proposals along these lines simply “smuggle the exponentiality” somewhere that isn’t being explicitly considered, exactly like all proposals for perpetual-motion machines smuggle the entropy increase somewhere that isn’t being explicitly considered. The problem isn’t a practical one; it’s one of principle.

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