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anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoYou are hounded by mathematicians that want to apply the halting problem to the device.
If they ever get through and ask the question, reality breaks.
Comment on Let's play this game again
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoYou are hounded by mathematicians that want to apply the halting problem to the device.
If they ever get through and ask the question, reality breaks.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
How will the scientists be able to figure out how to stop it before i summon another, destroying the previous one?
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
They don’t need to understand it, they just need to ask it a question that refers to it and some surrounding algorithmic structure to create the paradox.
A well prepared mathematician, skeptical of the functioning of the oracle devices could speak that question in a few minutes.