Re: Contacting God

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Sun, 17 May 1998 23:56:16 -0700

>Hara Ra <harara@shamanics.com> writes:
>
>> A nice literary conceit, but there's a leetle problem. The algorithm used
>> to generate PI can be written in a few thousand bytes of computer code,
>> therfore
>> the information content of PI is actually quite small, not enough to store
>> the plans for a Contact Machine.....
>
>Anders Sandberg:

>Well, maybe a Contact Machine is actually quite simple algorithmically
>speaking. Remember that the Mandelbrot set is very complicated, but
>generated by a short program.
>
so, transmit the virtual machine and the algorithm, instead of billions
of digits of PI.

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