tgb comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 06 April 2012 02:04:48AM 7 points [-]

I got the impression that what "not Turing-computable" meant is that there's no way to only compute what 'actually happens'; you have to somehow iteratively solve the fixed-point equation, maybe necessarily generating experiences (waves hands confusedly) corresponding to the 'false' timelines.

Comment author: tgb 10 April 2012 11:29:12PM 2 points [-]

Sounds rather like our own universe, really.