Re: Time Machines, FTL, and P=NP

Michael Ash wrote:
> Since you don't want to wait around for 300 years, you use your wormhole

> and write this instead:
> 
>     get x from future-wormhole
>     if no future information exists yet because it's the first run:
>         set x to first possibility
>     test x
>     if x is good, return x
>     else put x into wormhole

I assume you mean "put x+1 into wormhole"? An infinite loop could have 
interesting consequences.

This is basically Hans Moravec's time loop logic 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_loop_logic>,
but you came up with 
some really neat applications that might not immediately occur to most 
computer scientists. :)