RE: [sl4] I am a Singularitian who does not believe in the Singularity.

From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 20:50:18 MDT


On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 "Bradley Thomas" <brad36@gmail.com said:

> *My point is that any real algorithm in any real computer is
> automatically in an infinite loop.
> In the sense that it has to return to a prior state sooner or later

What on earth are you talking about? You start the Microsoft Word
program and write a novel with. When you are finished the program does
not "have" to return to the original state it was in before you started
writing, as a matter of fact I think you'd be a little annoyed at
Microsoft if it did.

 John K Clark

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