I just remembered this fun bit of scifi about an alien computational universe http://akkartik.name/post/wangs-carpets cc @daltonb @Srini K who've expressed interest in computation as simulation (https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1635811447034700; https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/CEXED56UR/p1639608107032600?thread_ts=1632872466.023400&cid=CEXED56UR)

You might enjoy ‘The Last Question’ by Asimov: https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

But of course 🙂

I've read this before, not sure from your blog or somewhere else. Great story, made a mark. :) I have a central concept of simulation in a different sense, like having a fine-grained hierarchy of (often very domain-specific) language interpreters, running programs in a hermetic sandbox, and other Turing-flavored simulation things. :D (It's an outrage that sandboxing software is so hard in practice when simulation is so foundational to computing.) I'm probably still missing some nuance on the model-centric perspective of simulation, but I bet they can be unified.

wow- i missed the citation and thought you wrote this at first 😅 really fun piece, thanks for linking