principle of computational equivalence in Podcasts
conceptThe principle of computational equivalence is a hypothesis proposed by Stephen Wolfram stating that many systems of simple rules can produce computations of equivalent sophistication.
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
And so that led to this thing that I call the principle of computational equivalence, which basically says when you have a system that follows rules of any kind, then whenever the system isn't doing things that are in some sense obviously simple,