Douglas_Knight comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 July 2013 03:40:09PM 0 points [-]

Well that's clearly true, if the dynamical system is that when t = 0 then y = 0 and dy/dt = 1, then y will pass through lots of uncomputable values at uncomputable times.

That's silly. You should only ask what the state of the system is at a specified time (yet another auxiliary tape).