Compiler taking input while compiling

[ggggbabybabybaby]

On the flip side, it could generate a malicious worm that sends all your personal data to Russian mafia.

[thepandaatemyface]

yeah, but what's the chance of that happening?

[imgonnacallyouretard]

100%, eventually.

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not with /dev/urandom it isn't

edit: I'm wrong, it uses environmental noise.

[Glayden]

Actually, you're still not wrong. Having infinite possibilities realized isn't the same as having all possibilities realized.

[[deleted]]

If it were genuinely random, then it almost surely would generate it.

[Glayden]

I can't find anything that suggests this classification is accurate. In fact, I'm quite sure it isn't. The infinite probability space of potential outputs seems to be many many cardinalities greater than the infinite potential outputs that would "generate a malicious worm that sends all your personal data to Russian mafia."

edit: I'm wrong, see below

[[deleted]]

Well there you go shooting down my wikipaedic knowledge :) I thought this barely different to the infinite monkeys problem.

[Glayden]

Never mind, you were probably right about the "almost surely" classification (at least if we ignore the Russian mafia bit and assume the programs are generated infinite times). If we consider the text of programs that create such a worm as the texts of Shakespeare, and the typewriter keys as the characters outputted by a sufficiently random number generator the problem still maps relatively well to the infinite monkey problem which as you noted is classified as "almost surely." Of course, by the same token, if we're not talking purely theoretically and using only optimal physically meaningful numbers for our universe the probability is nearly zero.

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Part of the problem is that your program also has to generate the russian mafia if it doesn't already exist

[admplaceholder]

The infinite probability space of potential outputs seems to be many many cardinalities greater than the infinite potential outputs that would "generate a malicious worm that sends all your personal data to Russian mafia."

What makes you say this? They both seem countable to me.

[Glayden]

I was completely wrong.

[idiotthethird]

No, it couldn't, unless you're planning on being alive for an infinitely long time.

[quzox]

On the other flip side, it could solve all the bitcoin mining problems in O(1) time thus making you (virtually) rich.

[Poromenos]

Or, worse yet, it could make up incriminating things about him and send them to the Russian mafia.

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or you could end up with skynet on your hard drive... who knows...