Giles comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2012 10:12PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (242)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Giles 28 October 2012 08:59:33PM 1 point [-]

Oh wow... I had been planning on writing a discussion post on essentially this topic. One quick question - if you have figured out the shortest program that will generate the camera data, is there a non-arbitrary way we can decide which parts of the program correspond to "physics of our universe" and which parts correspond to "reading off camera's data stream within universe"?