"What are we racing about?"

The usual - ever bigger bank balances for the tech bros, screw the rest of us who are put out of a job in the meantime. But hey don't worry - AI will generate new jobs! For maybe 1 in 100 people who get fired because of it in a best case scenario.

What would it be a hole in?

Wow, command line tools! You mean like clang and trace? Yeah, standard stuff. You dont need a 2025 cpu to run themf. You need to get your head out of the apple marketing depts arse and get a clue.

What sort of developers? All the recent C++17 code I've written compiles and runs in reasonable time on a 2009 laptop with the latest version of slackware installed. But I guess if you're using some dog slow scripting language with bloated frameworks it might be a different story.

... is going to do a lot of damage. Anyone want to guess how much a bullet weighs?

Wtf do you think a lambda function ultimately ends up as on a von neumann machine? Whatever you want to call it , if A do this else do Y is required for any kind of universal computing device.

" And an algorithm with lots of if-then-goto structures is still a mathematical algorithm"

No it isn't. The logical comparison may be mathematical but the then-goto part is not. Turings machine had to add that to be universal. If all it could do was arithmetic it would have been next to useless.

"And the physical models of computer games are either incomplete, or they don't contain Arithmetic"

Irrelevant. The simulation can be presented to an NPC inside it any way the authors of the simulation want. There is NO way to prove from inside the simulation that it is or isn't a simulation.

Would be interesting watching Florian giving a biology lesson :)

Its not just a dumb oscillator, it virtually has its own mind.

Even with our current tech we can simulate tiny universes and set up the laws of physics any way we want, see any FPS game. Just because something is mathematically inconsistent doesn't mean its logically inconsistent, after all, the vast majority of computer programs contain a whole load of if-then-goto structures to provide functionality which could not be achieved just by using some pure maths algo. There's nothing so say that any simulation wouldn't have hard coded rules that say "if one of the NPCs looks here do this , otherwise do that"

Speaking as someone with a couple of mercury fillings I'd be interested to know what they're doing to me. Its known that grinding and chewing can slowly abrade the filling and the particles are only going one way. Apparently this isn't considered a problem. Uh huh. How often have we heard hand waving expedient answers like that before.

You don't even need to go that far. Mercury fillings are very obvious so just get a pair of strong pliers and remove the teeth with them.

Type - should have said "wouldn't"

I doubt you'd have the balls to say the same thing about muslims and you certainly would get voted +5 of you did. Its very easy to punch people who you know won't punch back.

You're implying that there's a true god. Not everyone would agree.