Jed_Harris comments on Complexity and Intelligence - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 November 2008 08:27PM

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Comment author: Jed_Harris 03 November 2008 11:25:57PM 1 point [-]

The "500 bits" only works if you take a hidden variable or Bohmian position on quantum mechanics. If (as the current consensus would say) non-linear dynamics can amplify quantum noise then enormous amounts of new information are being "produced" locally everywhere all the time. The current state of the universe incorporates much or all of that information. (Someone who understands the debates about black holes and the holographic principle should chime in with more precise analysis.)

I couldn't follow the whole argument so I'm not sure how this affects it, but given that Eliezer keeps referring to this claim I guess it is important.