gwern comments on The Hero With A Thousand Chances - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 01 August 2009 08:11:20AM 0 points [-]

"Always the Dust is defeated, always it takes a new shape" --> Any destruction of entropy is counterbalanced by its increase somewhere else (e.g. life, control systems).

Dust, as is, strikes me as underspecified. It may take a shape immune to its last defeater, but nothing there prevents cycles - eg, I defeat it with A, it turns to B, I defeat it with C, it turns back to A...