Ask HN: Is the real world computational all the way down?

1 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by baigy

Item id: 49708962

4 Comments

nfujd7

6 hours ago

Have you seen code that has lasted for more than a few years that is able to handle all the changes around it without crashing? These days code has to be uodated every other hour just to give the apparence of stability.

its a very stupid mechanism if you want to create a scallop that lasts 500 million years surviving every possible change in the environment through that period.

baigy

34 minutes ago

So one can say, what's missing from this mental model is localized intelligence that is able to update said code on runtime.

chrisjj

6 hours ago

> - I.e. when a leg is moved, at its core, it's something like rig['Leg_*_Hip'].rotation = 42°

Not much good for walking.

baigy

33 minutes ago

Yea of course. Wasn't meant to be a realistic example. More like a starting point.