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HN links it as the accessible, hands-on demo behind the claim that Magic is Turing complete.
Kyle Hill of Because Science explains and demonstrates, using real cards, how Magic: The Gathering can be used to build a Turing machine, a computer inside the card game.
“Because Science did a thorough breakdown and demonstration, using actual cards” (HN, 2020)
For anyone curious about the details of building a Turing machine in MtG, Because Science did a thorough breakdown and demonstration, using actual cards: [this video]
Thorough breakdown and demo of a Turing machine in MtG.
Here's a demo: [this video] Didn't realize this before watching, but it's interesting that there's an incredibly complicated board state but the game state / actions are deterministic, e.g. the players don't have any choices about what to do once the machine is set up.
Related to your comment, here's the paper [0] and Because Science recently made a video about how such a game would look like [1]. [0] [link] [1] [this video]
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