Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

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Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Royal » Fri May 02, 2014 3:44 am

Wired article on the Programmable Universe
Think about it like this: In the Book of Genesis, God is the ultimate programmer, creating all of existence in a monster six-day hackathon.

Or, if you don’t like Biblical metaphors, you can think about it in simpler terms. Robert Moses was a programmer, shaping and re-shaping the layout of New York City for more than 50 years. Drug developers are programmers, twiddling enzymes to cure what ails us. Even pickup artists and conmen are programmers, running social scripts on people to elicit certain emotional results.

Everyone is becoming a programmer. The next step is to realize that everything is a program.
The point is that, much like the computer on your desk or the iPhone in your hand, the entire Universe is programmable. Just as you can build apps for your smartphones and new services for the internet, so can you shape and re-shape almost anything in this world, from landscapes and buildings to medicines and surgeries to, well, ideas — as long as you know the code.

That may sound like little more than an exercise in semantics. But it’s actually a meaningful shift in thinking. If we look at the Universe as programmable, we can start treating it like software. In short, we can improve almost everything we do with the same simple techniques that have remade the creation of software in recent years, things like APIs, open source code, and the massively popular code-sharing service GitHub.

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/the-univer ... grammable/

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Pigeon » Fri May 02, 2014 4:00 am

Sure.

You've hear me talk of computing is here because of how the universe is or works. Programs are series of instructions. Basically that is how we do things. I suppose the question here is how much write access do we have the data of the universe.

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Royal » Fri May 02, 2014 4:08 am

More about rules and parameters. Who grants it? We do? Can't help but think there is an authoritative body we cannot see. Too many weird things happen.
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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Pigeon » Fri May 02, 2014 4:09 am

This could be is a loop back to the simulated universe.

1 How much of the instruction set do we have access to

2 Do we have read and write access to all or part of the data

3 How powerful is our processor

What is out privilege level.

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Pigeon » Fri May 02, 2014 4:10 am

Can we reboot?

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Royal » Fri May 02, 2014 4:11 am

There appears to be slow and fast processors living happy and/or rich.

I believe it's a state of mind or balance achieved.

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Royal » Fri May 02, 2014 4:12 am

Pigeon wrote:Can we reboot?
Like waking up after a rest?

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Royal » Fri May 02, 2014 4:14 am

...and in another sense...My girlfriend is always trying to reboot me. But it's part of my master plan for her upgrade.

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Pigeon » Fri May 02, 2014 4:15 am

If there is the blue screen of death, would we know it? Or would a reboot just pick up at the same place and we would never know it happened.

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Re: Programmable Universe Goes Mainstream

Post by Royal » Fri May 02, 2014 4:17 am

That is something I been pondering about for a couple years.

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