DanielLC comments on On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 12 January 2012 05:47:57AM 1 point [-]

More precisely, the core of our current best available (but still known to be flawed) physics are QM and GR and we do not even have a consistent model fully incorporating both.

Comment author: DanielLC 13 January 2012 09:23:18PM 0 points [-]

From what I understand, we have more than one. We just don't know which, if any, is correct.

Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 17 January 2012 04:37:25AM 0 points [-]

We have some plans (including a few radically different from everything we are used to - which is good) how to build a model. I wouldn't call these plans models of anything yet, because QM and GR can help us predict the behaviour of precise tools we use, and these plans are not yet concrete enough to allow useful modelling.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 January 2012 12:01:02AM 0 points [-]

And some of them have so damn many free parameters that it would be hard to rule them out but they have hardly any predictive power.