Gavin comments on Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gavin 07 June 2014 04:03:30PM 0 points [-]

I would think those would all be representable by a Turing Machine, but I could be wrong about that. Certainly, my understanding of the Ultimate Ensemble is that it would include universes that are continuous or include irrational numbers, etc.

Comment author: DanArmak 07 June 2014 04:06:07PM 2 points [-]

Turing Machines have discrete, not continous states. There is a countable infinity of Turing Machines.