timtyler comments on Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 September 2009 06:31PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 09 September 2009 12:06:22AM -2 points [-]

But we don't have the type of amnesia drugs required to manifest the Sleeping Beauty problem, and perhaps there is something about consciousness that would prevent them from ever being created. (Isn't there some law of physics that precludes the total destruction of information.)

Comment author: timtyler 09 September 2009 09:20:27AM -2 points [-]

Microscopic reversibility prohibits any destruction of the information necessary to run things backwards - and that's all the information in the universe as far as we know.