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Plasmon comments on Completeness of simulations - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: RolfAndreassen 24 August 2012 10:44PM

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Comment author: Plasmon 25 August 2012 05:16:07PM *  2 points [-]

Where did you get the accurate GLUT? Before you had an accurate GLUT , you couldn't show him the accurate GLUT which would be needed to calculate the accurate GLUT.

Sure, you can calculate the GLUT for all possible inputs, some of which may be accurate GLUT inputs, but then you have to solve the problem of finding which of all possible inputs are accurate GLUT inputs. To answer the question, someone has to do calculations above and beyond just simulating a human.