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mgin comments on Reflexive self-processing is literally infinitely simpler than a many world interpretation - Less Wrong Discussion

-9 Post author: mgin 13 November 2015 02:46PM

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Comment author: mgin 14 November 2015 06:45:10PM 0 points [-]

if you need everything to calculate anything, that's terrible

why?

Comment author: Wes_W 15 November 2015 02:27:55AM 1 point [-]

Because we can't actually get infinite information, but we still want to calculate things.

And in practice, we can in fact calculate things to some level of precision, using a less-than-infinite amount of information.

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