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> Perhaps it is as impossible to predict if a program will ever finish as it is to create a functional genome that cannot get cancer? Quite interesting. Though
by jakear 5y ago
> Perhaps it is as impossible to predict if a program will ever finish as it is to create a functional genome that cannot get cancer?
Quite interesting. Though the hard part about the Halting problem is its infinite time scope. With a life form’s genes you only need to compute ~100 years max.
> It appears as if H3 and H4 were authored very carefully as they do have a lot of ‘synonymous changes’, which through the clever techniques described above do not lead to changes in the output.
Or they’ve just been around long enough to have experienced every change imaginable, and only those ones that had no effect produced viable life?