Cryptids

I had no idea what this was talking about and followed links to a blog post that explained the first one ("Bigfoot"): https://www.sligocki.com/2023/10/16/bb-3-3-is-hard.html

This blog post made the "cryptids" make a lot more sense to me, so I thought I'd share that post here in case others were also wondering "what the **"

If we can't predict/model these Turing machines' behavior because of unsolved math problems, what's stopping us from actually creating and running them to see what would happen (and maybe getting closer to solving those math problems in the process)? Is it just a matter of scale and resources?

My knowledge here is very limited, so this isn't a "why has no one tried this one weird trick"-type question. I assume there is in fact a good reason that I don't yet understand :P

Very nice, not what I expected and worth a read!

these remind me of rule 110 in GoL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

are they related?