@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-03-27 00:19 UTC
@regehr @lritter to be fair, I think the original usage goes back to things like non-deterministic Turing machines, where an Oracle whispers to you the exact right sequence of non-deterministic choices to make to get the result you want, and in that case (certainly in the presence of things like uncomputability etc.) some form of divine intervention (or at least divine wisdom) might legitimately be required.
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@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-27 00:21
@regehr @lritter it's just like with anything, you start up building a religion to give you divine input to find a counterexample to the Goldbach Conjecture or whatever, but once the infrastructure exists and works you stop asking the Oracle questions like "what is the meaning of life" and start asking it questions like "is it sunny outside? I can't be bothered to pull back the curtains"