ciphergoth comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 5 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 08 November 2010 08:44:12AM 0 points [-]

Something like a multiply-branching Universe in which those branches that turn out to contain paradoxes cease to exist?

Comment author: David_Allen 08 November 2010 02:34:27PM 1 point [-]

Not "cease to exist", simply won't exist.

Think of the interference patterns of the double slit experiment. The wave-functions of universes with paradoxes cancel out to give zero probability to those collective sets of conditions.