army1987 comments on Open Thread, May 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 May 2012 09:14:10AM 0 points [-]

OK... let's add one more intermediate point and consider the laws of a cellular automaton. I can see analogies both between them and the laws of our universe¹ and the analogies between them and the rules of chess.

  1. And mathematical realists à la Tegmark would see them even more easily than me.