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ShardPhoenix comments on Lessons from weather forecasting and its history for forecasting as a domain - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 24 June 2014 02:23:49AM *  1 point [-]

IIRC for a genuinely chaotic system, long-term predictions diverge for any error in the starting measurements, no matter how small. So if weather behaviour is really chaotic then precisely predicting it in the long-term isn't physically possible.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 June 2014 05:02:49AM 1 point [-]

Unless you start controlling the weather...,