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Re:Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete by aduitsis on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:40AM (#20448452)
A similar thing is described in Cixin Liu's "The Three Body Problem", where soldiers holding flags emulate the circuitry of a computer.
Re:Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete by tomclive on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:52AM (#20448488)
I really enjoyed that part of the book. If I remember correctly, the soldiers were just representations of the Trisolarans as they were too alien for us to identify with. The actual Trisolarans emitted light to build their living computer.