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You can relate to the challenge a deer tick faces. It waits on a twig, ready to drop when it smells butyric acid wafting up from below, evidence that there’s a mammal to land on and blood to suck. But the tick can’t wait forever or it will starve, so something in the tick knows when to give up waiting, fall to the forest floor and climb to some other twig.
It’s the same challenge Alan Turing, the inventor of the digital computer, called the halting problem: Programming a computer to search for a pattern in a string of seemingly random numbers, you have to also program in when the computer should halt the search, in effect giving up on finding the pattern.
Maybe there is no pattern; maybe there is one and the computer just didn’t find it in the time allotted. I call this Turing’s Blurring Anxiety (TBA): When you’re trying to accomplish something, unless and until it is accomplished, you won’t know whether it can’t be accomplished or just hasn’t been accomplished yet. The distinction between those two outcomes is blurred.
In everyday life, Turing’s halting problem could be called the loyalty problem. Loyalty to…