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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

"You are a Universal Turing Machine. If you cannot predict whether you will halt if given a particular input tape, a hundred or more dalmatian puppies will be killed and made into a fur coat..."

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Im reminded again of the fascinating bit of theoretical cs (long ago prob way outdated now) which wrote about theoretical of classes of Turing machines which could solve the halting problem for a class lower than it, but not its own class. This is also where I got my oracle halting problem solver from.

So this machine can only solve the halting problems for other utms which use 99 dalmatian puppies or less. (Wait would a fraction of a puppy count? Are puppies Real or Natural? This breaks down if the puppies are Imaginary).

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

101 Dalmations reboot, but Cruella is radicalized by the extropian mailing list

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cruella and the fur coat of Rationality.

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