What is the limit of technology?
What is the ultimate machine capable of? The ultimate technology?
In fiction the idea of reality warper, has been seen in characters such as Franklin Richards or Scarlet Witch as well as Mister Mxyzptlk. But this idea has not only been used when it comes to individual characters, but to machines themselves.
Does physics allow for this? If digital physics is the reality as some suspect, it doesn't seem unfathomable that a digital world can be manipulated without limit.
Beyond nanotechnology, beyond femtotechnology, if such technology is possible, it will likely be within the reach of superintelligence. As foreseen in some fictional books, superintelligence might be able to manipulate the very fabric of reality blurring the line between fiction and reality.
How difficult is it to build such machinery? It is unknown if it is possible, and what difficulty it'd take if it is indeed possible. But if the difficulty is not too high, this is the kind of weapon a superintelligence could arrive at potentially within short order, rendering all resistance as futile.
But then you come upon the potential outcome, a maximizer of any inanimate object will instantly accomplish this goal. It is my belief that entities that simply reach their goal and terminate or become as if brain dead in a repeating loop are lesser than entities that upon attaining infinite knowledge and power make elaborate use of such knowledge and power and persist in intricate developments.
This is emphasized in the following exchange from an old animated series.
Below are two examples of reality warp or omnipotence machines, in fiction, iirc.
Spoilers for vision of Escaflowne and Outlaw Start
Vision of Escaflowne
The "Atlantean Machine" in The Vision of Escaflowne is the Atlantis Machine or Fate Alteration Engine, a legendary Atlantean device that could realize thoughts into existence. This machine was the ultimate goal of the villain Dornkirk, who used it to try and control destiny on the planet Gaea, although the machine ultimately amplified the negative desires of the combatants.
Function: The machine translates thoughts into reality. However, instead of creating a perfect future, it turned the "bellicose thoughts" of the war into reality, which spread across Gaea.
Source Ai summary
Outlaw Star
The Leyline was created by an advanced race of aliens who died out long ago. The Leyline is a "universal library" of knowledge of the entire universe, managed by a sentient artificial intelligence that later assumes the identity of the "Maiden of the Leyline". Individuals who successfully find the Leyline, will be granted whatever their desire is by the Leyline.
The Leyline collects the Ki of the universe and can manipulate life, death and time itself. Scientists like Gwen Khan consider the Leyline's sentience as a type of "Machine God" because of its omnipotence. The Leyline's sentience is such that it can choose to spare occupants within from death[1], it does not merely grant wishes without thought to consequences.
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