Eugine_Nier comments on Causal Universes - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 November 2012 05:43:44AM 2 points [-]

Sure, reality could be arbitrarily weird - but if the universe cannot even be approximated within a number of bits much larger than the number of neurons (or even atoms, quarks, whatever), "rationality" has lost anyway.

Why? If the universe has features that our current computers can't approximate, maybe we could use those features to build better computers.