alt Hacker News> One of the most profound pieces of advice I ever read as a PhD student came from Prof. Manuel Blum, a Turing Award winner. In his essay "Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student", he wrote: "Without writing, you are reduced to a finite automaton. With writing you have the extraordinary power of a Turing machine."
only if you have an unlimited amount of paper!
otherwise you're still a finite state machine (technically)
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measurablefunc • last Wednesday at 2:19 AM
And also only if you know how to do boolean algebra.
There feels to be something special about reducing the computation to self reflect or just be in the tao/dao
Maybe it's still in the state machine but it feels like one escapes the trajectory of a Turing machine running the program