8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)

Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by fasteddie31003 on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:00PM (#26706275)

"Not everybody needs to build stuff or achieve things IRL. And that's perfectly fine." Probably the answer to the Fermi Paradox.

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Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by thewakalix on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:23PM (#26706489)

I disagree. There's an asymmetry -- you only need one expansionist civilization to disturb the pristine universe that we observe, no matter how many civilizations are content with staying home and remaining quiet.

(Relevant: the unilateralist's curse, https://nickbostrom.com/papers/unilateralist.pdf.)

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Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by Scarblac on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:58AM (#26709645)

First, expansionism needs to be possible. Chemical rockets combined with large biological life forms seem to rule out interstellar colonization.

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