On Thursday, 5 November 2015, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
It would be trivially easy to write a program that would generate all > correct textbooks in mathematics and physics of 1000 pages or less, but it > would be *ASTRONOMICALLY* more difficult to generate **only** correct > textbooks in mathematics and physics of 1000 pages or less; and it could > not even be attempted without matter that obeys the laws of physics. > But if rather than textbooks the program is generating virtual worlds containing observers, it wouldn't make any difference to the inhabitants of those worlds that you, the external observer, could not recognise and interact with them. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
