cousin_it comments on Re-formalizing PD - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 29 April 2009 10:57:52AM 0 points [-]

I read the paper, and it seemed to me to be useless. We want a physically inviolable guarantee of isolation.

Comment author: whpearson 29 April 2009 11:57:07AM *  0 points [-]

It gave some ideas. It suggests we might start with specifying time limits, e.g. specifying a system will be effectively isolated for a certain time, by scanning a region of space around that system.