• Cows Look Like Maps
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    28 months ago

    Infinite seems like it’s low-balling it

    Infinite by definition cannot be “low-balling”.

    0% of problems can be solved by Turing machines (same way 0% of real numbers are integers)

    This is incorrect. Any computable problem can be solved by a Turing machine. You can look at the Church-Turing thesis if you want to learn more.

    • @MBM
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      18 months ago

      Infinite by definition cannot be “low-balling”.

      I was being cheeky! It could’ve been that the set of non-Turing-computible problems had measure zero but still infinite cardinality. However there’s the much stronger result that the set of Turing-computible problems actually has measure zero (for which I used 0% and the integer:reals thing as shorthands because I didn’t want to talk measure theory on Lemmy). This is so weird, I never got downvoted for this stuff on Reddit.