faul_sname comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: faul_sname 02 October 2012 11:24:10PM *  4 points [-]

Technically, if you put the basket in the box (or vice versa), you could still have a marble in both the basket and the box with only one marble in the universe.

Comment author: thomblake 03 October 2012 01:54:29PM 5 points [-]

You're technically correct. THE BEST KIND OF CORRECT.

Comment author: DaFranker 03 October 2012 02:13:32PM 0 points [-]

This is definitely not the only method to achieve this, if you take "all possible worlds" literally and start playing with laws of physics.