A complete listing of the code is different from ability to change it, let alone feed the modified code back into the active interpreter (I’m going to guess that it’s not a compiled language in this case). I suppose Ching also had this ability?
He did, yes, as I outlined in the parent of your post. Perhaps the quote needed a bit more context, but it’s hard to find a pithy explanation of the background information.
That aside, I suggest that a full listing of the source code of the universe you’re running in is the maximum potence you’re likely to get, no matter which specific hacks it allows.
A complete listing of the code is different from ability to change it, let alone feed the modified code back into the active interpreter (I’m going to guess that it’s not a compiled language in this case). I suppose Ching also had this ability?
He did, yes, as I outlined in the parent of your post. Perhaps the quote needed a bit more context, but it’s hard to find a pithy explanation of the background information.
That aside, I suggest that a full listing of the source code of the universe you’re running in is the maximum potence you’re likely to get, no matter which specific hacks it allows.
How the frell did I miss that?
Seriously. WTF.
Out of fic, though, I doubt that knowing the laws of the universe immediately leads to ‘maximum potence’. There are hard engineering problems.