Re:The Infinity Machine
by Schiphol on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:07AM
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There's work on so-called "hypercomputation" that might relevant to the author's project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation
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Re:The Infinity Machine
by ryankrage77 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @09:01AM
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Also see Supertasks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertask
VSauce is a little silly, but genuinely does have great content packed in his videos, and he has one on Supertasks: https://youtu.be/ffUnNaQTfZE
Re:The Infinity Machine
by jackofspades on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:46PM
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This just came up on a separate recent HN thread... the fictional hypercomputer:
"I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility" by qntm:
https://qntm.org/responsibility