Universal Dovetailer

Warning

⚠️ The Universal Dovetailer is a dangerous program. ⚠️ It will run all possible programs of all possible lengths, without stopping. ⚠️ This includes programs that will crash your computer, delete your files and (might!) create a simulated replica of our entire universe.

Paper

Pieri, Lorenzo. 2024. “A Universal Dovetailer Implementation.” OSF Preprints. November 25. doi:10.31219/osf.io/nphg2.

https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/nphg2

Installation

git clone https://github.com/lorepieri8/universal_dovetailer.git
cd universal_dovetailer
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the Universal Dovetailer

python3 run_ud.py --max_program_length 4

⚠️ Run the Universal Dovetailer Forever ⚠️

python3 run_ud.py --max_program_length -42