<story><title>Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete</title><url>https://medium.com/@balidani/cities-skylines-is-turing-complete-e5ccf75d1c3a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>I think this has some meaning for the abundance of life in the multiverse. If most human-created systems of sufficient complexity turn out to accidentally support computation, then maybe most laws of physics support computation.&lt;p&gt;Hey, it&amp;#x27;s not better or worse than any other way to guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bordercases</author><text>&amp;gt; Hey, it&amp;#x27;s not better or worse than any other way to guess.&lt;p&gt;Saying this is a kind of relativism that closes you off to receiving criticism for this view.&lt;p&gt;Here is some disagreement from the philosopher of information Luciano Floridi, &amp;quot;Against Digital Ontology&amp;quot;:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philsci-archive.pitt.edu&amp;#x2F;4076&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;ado.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philsci-archive.pitt.edu&amp;#x2F;4076&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;ado.pdf&lt;/a&gt; and its sister paper &amp;quot;A Defence of Informational Structural Realism&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&amp;#x2F;viewdoc&amp;#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.135.5500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&amp;#x2F;viewdoc&amp;#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.135...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You might to be tempted to ignore this paper for being too technical, but it would be technical only because these are real issues that become difficult when put under serious reflection.&lt;p&gt;If you can stomach it you will be rewarded with deeper understanding.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete</title><url>https://medium.com/@balidani/cities-skylines-is-turing-complete-e5ccf75d1c3a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>I think this has some meaning for the abundance of life in the multiverse. If most human-created systems of sufficient complexity turn out to accidentally support computation, then maybe most laws of physics support computation.&lt;p&gt;Hey, it&amp;#x27;s not better or worse than any other way to guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>Well, this game is really just a layer built on top of Turing complete software so is it really all that surprising that the game itself is Turing complete?  I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if most complex simulation games are Turing complete.</text></comment>