Timeline for Why aren’t there advanced computers in an advanced society?
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| Apr 24 at 20:00 | comment | added | Pica | @AlexP would you accept that there is a recursive uncertain physics-model that makes scientific advances ever harder | |
| Apr 24 at 16:58 | comment | added | davido | "They are in a simulation" is a great Deus-Ex-Machina answer to pretty much any plot hole in sci-fi. :) | |
| Apr 24 at 9:28 | comment | added | AlexP | In computer programming, recursion and iteration are interchangeable. One can always use iteration instead of recursion, or recursion instead of iteration. (And a decent compiler will automatically replace recursion with iteration if it finds a way to do it efficiently.) One never thinks about deep recursion when programming; one always thinks about one recursion step and lets the depth take care of itself. | |
| Apr 24 at 8:47 | comment | added | Pica | @AlexP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy How about a lack of depth when it comes to imagine deeply nested recursion? | |
| Apr 23 at 21:29 | comment | added | AlexP | Recursion is a fundamental property of human language, and, as far as we can tell, is required for any kind of language of equal power of expression. (And if you refer strictly to the kind of recursion expressed by programming languages, that can always be replaced by iteration.) | |
| Apr 23 at 19:33 | history | answered | Pica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |