Andrew Critch questions claims about the universe's computational limits via infinite Game of Life
AndrewCritchPhD · x · 2026-09-20
Andrew Critch shared a demo of an infinitely recursive Conway's Game of Life, riffing on the feeling when people say the universe "obviously" has computational limits. The recursive demo playfully challenges intuitive claims about hard computational bounds of the universe.
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