Baughn comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baughn 04 July 2010 07:25:12AM 0 points [-]

In what sense is post-selection not time-travel? You've still got the state at time T determined by the state at T+1.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 04 July 2010 08:18:11AM 1 point [-]

Because, if I'm reading this right, they literally manually postselected the results. They didn't come up with some way to get the physics to postselect it for you.