> I like to think of the universe as a deterministic computer that is calculating its own outcome - there is no shortcut to jump to the end. I've mostly heard

> I like to think of the universe as a deterministic computer that is calculating its own outcome - there is no shortcut to jump to the end. I've mostly heard this dubbed "computational irreducibility" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_irreducibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_irreducibility