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TruePath comments on Evidence For Simulation - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: TruePath 27 January 2012 11:07PM

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Comment author: TruePath 29 January 2012 11:12:12PM 0 points [-]

Here stability refers to numerical stability, i.e., whether or not minor errors in computation accumulate over time and cause the results to go wildly astray or do small random errors cancel out or at least not blow up.