Emile comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2013 07:54PM

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Comment author: Emile 13 June 2013 12:55:21PM *  6 points [-]

Can we put a lid on this conflation of subjective probability with objective quantum branching please? A deterministic fair coin does not split the world, and neither would a deterministic economic cycle. Or are we taking seriously the possibility that the course of the economy is largely driven by quantum randomness?

I'm certainly taking it seriously, and am somewhat surprised that you're not. Some ways small-sized effects (most likely to "depend" of quantum randomness) can eventually have large-scale impacts:

  • DNA Mutations
  • Which sperm gets to the egg
  • The weather
  • Soft errors from cosmic rays or thermal radiation