PhilGoetz comments on Reality is weirdly normal - LessWrong

33 Post author: RobbBB 25 August 2013 07:29PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 28 August 2013 05:16:07AM *  0 points [-]

Here is the latest list of the basic rules

That doesn't appear to be a list, or a rule, or anything meaningful, since it has no equality or inequality symbols.

Your main point seem basically correct. I think RobbBB is trying to get at something meaningful, but is heading in the wrong direction with his demand for definitive, exceptionless, deterministic rules. It's all about information, and information accommodates exceptions and non-determinism.

Comment author: shminux 28 August 2013 06:24:54AM 2 points [-]

That doesn't appear to be a list, or a rule, or anything meaningful, since it has no equality or inequality symbols.

Yeah, sorry, this is just the Lagrangian of the Standard Model of particle physics, it's used to calculate probability amplitudes. That's where you get the equal sign.