Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 March 2013 09:16:47AM 2 points [-]

To presume that states non-identical up to thermal noise are indistinguishable seems to presume either lower technology than the sort of thing I have in mind, or that you know something I don't about how two physical states can be non-identical up to thermal noise and yet indistinguishable.