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45 Post author: leplen 29 June 2013 07:06AM

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Comment author: leplen 29 June 2013 05:58:28PM 1 point [-]

Maybe. I'm still really worried about the sheer number of particles and degrees of freedom. An AI may be able to count to infinity much faster than I can, but it's not going to get there any sooner. It's not clear that the S.E. is solvable.

It's not like the laws of physics considerations which are invariant depending on who's doing the engineering, the difficulty of modelling is largely dependent on the capabilities of the modeller.

It's not clear to me that there's a difference? The laws of physics dictate the model.