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#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Most Beautiful Idea in Computer Science?
Douglas Rushkoff: What's the most beautiful idea in computer science or theoretical computer science to you?Rushkoff: I think I'm going to have to go with the idea of universality. The simple instructions of basic are already enough, at least in principle, if we ignore details like how much memory can be accessed and stuff like that. That is enough to express what could be expressed by any programming language whatsoever. He says anything that's expressible in C or Java is also expressible in basic.rushkoff: Let me go on another topic that is amazing, which is complexity.
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