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IMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless. And not just the learning purposes. Im
by TomMarius 8y ago
IMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless.
And not just the learning purposes. Imagine the possibilities if we could properly simulate (and speed up the simulation) the world - what if we could use genetic algorithms to develop an organism.
- dllthomas 8y agohttps://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility
- JadeNB 8y ago> IMHO that's like saying higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary. Or that a debugger is useless. These two statements are quite different. Higher level programming languages than assembly are unnecessary; anything beyond the lambda calculus is unnecessary (assuming our goal is to compute Turing computable things). That's very different from saying that they're useless; just because they can be done without doesn't mean that they should.
- TomMarius 8y agoI know that these statements are quite different, I deliberately made two different examples - one about creating and one about debugging. A world simulator is going to be a test environment for us as well as an introspection tool.