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Re:The Infinity Machine by Schiphol on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:07AM (#41108279)
There's work on so-called "hypercomputation" that might relevant to the author's project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation
Re:The Infinity Machine by ryankrage77 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @09:01AM (#41108700)
Re:The Infinity Machine by its_ethan on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:08AM (#41109900)
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 (#41111217)
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