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

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 06 September 2014 12:53:48PM -2 points [-]

Out of the box, a classical computer doesn't represent the ontology of rQM because all information has an observer-independent representation, but s software layer can hide literal representations in the way a LISP gensym does. Uncomputability is not required.

In any case, classical computability isn't a good index of complexity. It's an index of how close something is to a classical computer. Problems are harder or easier to solve according to the technology used to solve them. That's why people don't write device drivers in LISP.

Comment author: nshepperd 07 September 2014 03:24:39AM 2 points [-]

Um, computability has very little to do with "classical" computers. It's a very general idea relating to the existence of any algorithm at all.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 07 September 2014 02:55:43PM 0 points [-]

Uncomputability isn't needed to model the ontology of rQM,