shminux comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 05 July 2012 11:47:45PM 3 points [-]

Macroscopic determinism

The relevant mathematical term is well-posedness, specifically

The solution's behavior hardly changes, when there's a slight change in the initial condition

Specifically, the short-term changes are small or at least bounded, though the long term behavior may change drastically.