thomblake comments on Timeless Decision Theory and Meta-Circular Decision Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 26 August 2009 05:39:43PM 1 point [-]

But then it's not clear how to literally simulate out the whole universe in perfect detail when the inside of your computer is casting gravitational influences outward based on transistors whose exact value you haven't yet computed (since you can't compute all of yourself in advance of computing yourself!).

Somewhat tangentially, this is a way to grok how the information-processing capabilities of markets are computationally intractable to simulate (or predict their outputs via experts).