First is this evidence that randomized rule systems that are complicated enough to be interesting are also likely to allow some sort of drastic increase in effective abilities using some sort of loopholes? (essentially going FOOM in a general sense).
Can you analogize this to being Turing-complete? One thing esoteric languages—and security research! - teaches is that the damndest things can be Turing-complete. (For example, return-into-libc attacks or Wang tiles.)
Yep. Which is why letting a domain-specific language reach Turing-completeness is a danger, because when you can do something you will soon have to do it. I’ve ranted on this before.
Idle speculation: I wonder if this is analogous to the intelligence increase from chimps to humans. Not Turing-completeness precisely, but some similar opening into a new world of possibility, an open door to a previously unreachable area of conceptspace.
Can you analogize this to being Turing-complete? One thing esoteric languages—and security research! - teaches is that the damndest things can be Turing-complete. (For example, return-into-libc attacks or Wang tiles.)
Yep. Which is why letting a domain-specific language reach Turing-completeness is a danger, because when you can do something you will soon have to do it. I’ve ranted on this before.
Idle speculation: I wonder if this is analogous to the intelligence increase from chimps to humans. Not Turing-completeness precisely, but some similar opening into a new world of possibility, an open door to a previously unreachable area of conceptspace.