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Sep 26, 2016 at 23:15 comment added Joel David Hamkins There doesn't appear to be any evidence in those references supporting the claim in the answer that the resulting large-cardinal busy-beaver-like functions are cofinal in the computable functions.
May 23, 2013 at 5:22 comment added Eric Tressler Scott Aaronson also mentions it in "Who Can Name the Bigger Number"(scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html)
May 23, 2013 at 5:15 comment added Eric Tressler This is the busy beaver function, and has an excellent Wikipedia article at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver.
Jun 27, 2010 at 12:07 comment added Joel David Hamkins Could you provide any reference work that explores this idea further?
Jun 26, 2010 at 18:30 history answered reb CC BY-SA 2.5