[nico]

You don’t need a pirate ship to build legos

But you do need an interpreter to interpret/run any algorithm

So you can never really separate the algorithm from the interpreter for any practical application

If your algorithm requires the capabilities that define an interpreter as Turing-complete, then the algorithm will be Turing complete as well

[ftxbro]

is this a derridean 'il n'y a pas de hors-texte' deconstruction of the chomsky hierarchy because if it is then i'm here for it

[nico]

Had never heard of the concept of ‘lil n’y a pas de hors-texted’, reading about it sounds like the same concept: can’t remove the context from the object

> Understood as such, it's not really such a strange idea, that the things outside of the text itself can and do give meaning to it in an ever-evolving way. In a philosophical context we can understand it to assert the idea that context is always present, and isn't necessarily stable.

From: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/40227