@MoralOfStory But considering how many possibilities there are for the initial configuration this seems trivially false?
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Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@CurlOfGradient All the interesting predictions seem trivially false at first *dons mysterious wizard hat*1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MoralOfStory
@MoralOfStory But for a meta-universe of 1000000 coin flips, it's easy to generate all of them, but specifying one takes 1000000 bits, yes?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@CurlOfGradient no-- while on average you can compress no more than 50%, some universes are easier; e.g. universe 0 takes very few bits.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MoralOfStory
@MoralOfStory I should have specified I mean a random string. But there are so many possibilities that would produce a uni similar to ours.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@MoralOfStory Not as many as would produce dead universes, but still an unimaginable number. So I'm 95% certain you need a lot of bits.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@CurlOfGradient order of magnitude estimate? maybe we can turn this into a bet ;)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MoralOfStory
@MoralOfStory Order of magnitude of the possible initial configurations that would produce a universe similar to our own?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@CurlOfGradient # of bits to completely specify a program that outputs our universe, or at least one that contains us.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MoralOfStory
@MoralOfStory Just a couple thousand lines of code for the laws of physics, and then 10^80 bits for the initial conditions. If you mean 1/22 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@MoralOfStory it contains one Earth, the rest be damned, maybe less, and if the universe were truly infinite then maybe even less.
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Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@MoralOfStory Though you'd be hard pressed to fit an infinite universe in a computer.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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