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Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!
Rik702 writes "Wolframscience.com have announced that an undergraduate from Birmingham, UK has proved Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine is universal." You can read a pdf of the proof as well as some related coverage.
You're right, it does seem trollish....and you must not understand the point of the comment....nor the use of the word good in the context in which it was used. It is not about being defensive, but about the seeming constricting of the definition of accomplishment to something merely material/scientific...that is what bugs me. And I fail to see why "argument" would be necessary since all that was asked was who could be said to accomplish more. For some reason, in the second part of your post, you take the use of good and seem to twist it into a bit of a straw man for some good ole sniping commentary. I was speaking of motivation, not ambition. A hacker (the type that wears black clothes and sport a handlebar mustache) may want to be the best in terms of ambition, but one would generally find his motivation lacking in the "good" department.
In fact such upgrade may be impossible. The universe probably does not contain enough matter for such memory/tape...