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army1987 comments on Open thread, Oct. 13 - Oct. 19, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 October 2014 08:50:39PM 3 points [-]

Well you can't do things that would be really nice to do in biology like "rerun the tape of life",

You can't do things in cosmology like "rerun the tape of the universe" either.

Comment author: Punoxysm 14 October 2014 09:19:55PM 2 points [-]

Sure, but I think it's reasonable to say that humans are ill-behaved as experimental subjects compared to other biological organisms, which are ill-behaved compared to particles, stars and galaxies.

I mean ill-behaved in the sense that their behaviors cannot be reliably modeled by compact mathematical models.