Fallible Animals Episode 6: Interview with Physicist Chiara Marletto
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The Algebra of Tasks in Constructor Theory
The idea is to avoid talking about the constructor and its explicit design in the theory, but just state the laws as requiring that a certain task is possible or is impossible. And this is important because most of, for most tasks that are performed in the universe, the constructor is highly complex. The fact that we can abstract constructors from the laws of physics is one of the powerful switches in constructor theory.
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