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Comment author: torekp 07 March 2016 10:44:53PM 0 points [-]

if P(B) is well defined without reference to A

You're right. Good point.

it's an n-squared-minus-one-way street

Don't you mean n-factorial? Anyway, ... hmm, I need to think about this more.

Comment author: lisper 07 March 2016 10:51:40PM 0 points [-]

Don't you mean n-factorial?

Yeah, probably. It's actually probably N!-1 because you have to trace over one degree of freedom to obtain a classical universe. But the details don't really matter. What matters is that it's >>N.