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		davidivadavid on Sept 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The World After Capital (2018) His point is probably along the lines of "any machine emulating a Turing machine can compute all computable functions." Which of course doesn't mean that there aren't uncomputable functions.

ctdonath on Sept 2, 2021 [–]

He’s indulging the common confusion of theory with practice. Just because something is computable in theory doesn’t mean it’s computable in practice.

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