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>so for practical purposes (while being part of "Program A"), just use some form of induction (like in most sciences) or an AI like AIXItl or something more resource efficient.
In practice I want to predict cellular automata without having to actually run the simulation, or just find a way of accelerating them infinitely.
In the book "A new kind of science", Wolfram talks about "computational irreducibility", i.e. that there might in fact be no way to predict the behavior of these automata without running them. Is he right, or just a defeatist?
Why would you want to travel through time though if you can just simulate anything you'd want to find out without having to expose yourself to any risks?
Because simulations are
insanely slow. I don't want to wait 100 years just to get a result. That's why I asked about the prediction thing.