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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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...hey, wait a second, you pulled a fast one on me with that "100 million states/s" silliness!
I just remembered what the time boundary I was talking about was actually trying to measure: it had nothing to do with the speed of computation; it was the speed of typing in the program code. That's why 1 state per second was a reasonable estimate (if not overly optimistic). If you tried to type in all those
ifs andprints manually, that's what would take you longer than the heat death of the universe.Besides, even executing the program can't do 100 million states per second because it only does one state transition and then waits for user input.
Oh I was assuming you'd write another program to create this program, like the "4 billion if's" blog post if you've read it.