irrationalist comments on Causal Universes - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: irrationalist 28 November 2012 12:45:41PM 2 points [-]

Showed up in Penrose's "The Fabric of Reality." Curvature of spacetime is determined by infinitesimal light cones at each point. You can get a uniquely determined surface from a connection as well as a connection from a surface.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 November 2012 05:58:03PM 10 points [-]

Obviously physicists totally know about causality being restricted to the light cone! And "curvature of space = light cones at each point" isn't Penrose, it's standard General Relativity.

Comment author: irrationalist 30 November 2012 04:08:42PM 0 points [-]

Not claiming it's his own idea, just that it showed up in the book, I assume it's standard.

Comment author: diegocaleiro 29 November 2012 04:04:47AM 6 points [-]

David Deutsch, not Roger Penrose. Or wrong title.

Comment author: lukeprog 28 November 2012 03:17:55PM 3 points [-]

Page number?