Vladimir_Nesov comments on Causal Universes - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: khafra 28 November 2012 03:36:12PM 1 point [-]

If this universe contains agents who engage in acausal trade, does that make it partially acausal?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 28 November 2012 07:27:00PM * 1 point [-]

Agents can make choices that enforce global logical constraints, using computational devices that run on local causality.

Comment author: khafra 29 November 2012 12:00:59PM 0 points [-]

Thanks, I feel like I grok this answer: There may be higher order acausal structures in the universe, but they run on a causal substrate.