In frames 9-13 and 19-20 in the xkcd comic you can see some patterns created by the rules. We want to know what is funny in that “I call rule 34 according to the rule of Tungsten 34”?
I'm not quite sure what the meaning of rule 34 is (with the exception of internet porn joked on XKCD 305 [credit Jason Slocomb comment]), but the essence of the comic is that some poor dude is modeling our entire universe using a Turing machine . The idea of a Turing machine is that a data table can be used to perform calculations on other data (i.e., the program is the first table, and the input and output are the other table).
The first table (program) gives rules that tell the machine what to do with the data. Tungsten claimed that he reduced everything to a minimum number of rules that made it possible to perform all possible calculations (universal computer).
He said that he needs 2 states and 3 colors or something like that (I can have the order back). I think states refer to (0/1), and colors refer to the type of operations you perform. If you studied assembly, it would make more sense.
The most basic calculation is when 2 bits of data are compared to get the third. They are called logical operations. Possible 8:
0;0 -> 0 0;0 -> 1 0;1 -> 0 0;1 -> 1 1;0 -> 0 1;0 -> 1 1;1 -> 0 1;1 -> 1
You can do all this with a single “color” comparison (for example, an XOR scheme) and even combine this operation with a write operation. Then, by storing 2 control bits somewhere (o and 1 at the beginning of your memory), you can write a simple 0 or 1 by comparing these bits with yourself or with each other. If you link a bunch of XOR schemes together in different templates, you can achieve all 8 results. Wiki XOR for more details.
But for most programs, another very important function is required: you need to jump to different parts of the program, and then bounce back. therefore, jumping is a completely different color.
And, of course, you have to read a bit from memory.
So, in everything Wolfram said that he can make any program (this means that all conceivable programs are exhaustive) of 3 "colors".
Stephen Wolfram conducted extensive empirical studies of these Turing models; looking at them, reflecting on them, cataloging them and comparing them, studying hundreds of photographs and graphs of their consequences, etc.
Thus, the frightening joke, I suppose, is either that when the poor guy moving with stones gets into part of his modeling of the universe related to Wolfram’s research work, and all the activities involved in the brain, etc., samples the rocks get really recursive, or is there something to do with rock modeling internet porn involving tungsten cellular automaton rules ?? !!?
Recursively structured rock internet simulations? Internet pornography with rock simulations?
Something like this, I suppose.