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by Demonoculus 695 days ago
While I am not an expert, but won't it run into Xeno's like paradox? But makes for interesting reading.
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What do you mean by "run into"?

Zeno's paradoxes are thought experiments. The original paradox of Achilles and the tortoise purported to show that Achilles would never be able to overtake the tortoise. But of course, in a real race Achilles would encounter no difficulty whatsoever in doing that.

The Infinity Machine almost certainly isn't physically possible, but that's because of the laws of physics, not because of Zeno.

Unless there's an infinite number of programs of finite size, which sounds impossible, then no.