shminux comments on If Many-Worlds Had Come First - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 04 September 2014 09:34:57PM 0 points [-]

Territory-wise, it looks like the universe can't be a (classical) computer. Is that a problem?

As I understand it, any quantum computer can be modeled on a classical one, possibly with exponential slowdown.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 04 September 2014 09:47:29PM 0 points [-]

Be modeled doesn't mean be.

Comment author: shminux 04 September 2014 10:07:21PM 0 points [-]

I guess that's the root of our disagreement about instrumentalism.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 05 September 2014 10:20:03AM -1 points [-]

The dictionary seems to be on my side.

I can see how your conclusion follows from that assumption, but the assumption is as strange as the conclusion. Ideally, an argument should proceed from plausible premises.

Comment author: shminux 05 September 2014 03:42:56PM 1 point [-]

Disengaging due to lack of convergence.