cousin_it comments on A note on the description complexity of physical theories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 10 November 2010 08:56:19PM *  1 point [-]

How does the Multiverse know

It doesn't, not right now in the present moment. But there's no reason why "subjective threads" and "subjective probabilities" should depend on physical laws only locally. Imagine you're an algorithm running on a computer. If someone pauses the computer for a thousand years, afterwards you go on running like nothing happened, even though at the moment of pausing nobody "knew" when/if you'd be restarted again.

Comment author: Thomas 10 November 2010 09:23:00PM *  -1 points [-]

If someone pauses the computer for a thousand years, afterwards you go on running like nothing happened, even though at the moment of pausing nobody "knew" when/if you'd be restarted again.

But what if a new computer arises every time and an instance of this algorithm start there?

As it allegedly does in MW?