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Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the Universe Just the Computer?

The amount of information processing power required to simulate our universe seems like amazingly huge. But you can always raise two to the power of that, right? We're easily humbled by basically everything around us. So it's very difficult to make sense of anything,. Actually, when you look up at the sky and look at the stars and the immensity of it all... It's also interesting to think of the power of computation where there are the limits of a Turing machine - sort of the limits of current computers.

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