@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.
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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 -
Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@CurlOfGradient Great, my estimate is < 10^12 bits, let's say 10^18 just to be *absurdly* conservative.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MoralOfStory
@MoralOfStory My 10^80 estimate is from moving each atom in the universe, after they have condensed out of the quark-gluon plasma, one unit.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@MoralOfStory To say nothing of moving two atoms at once. The positions would have to be *absurdly* correlated before to reduce it by much.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@CurlOfGradient I feel like I should extract a bet before disclosing my strategy ;)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @MoralOfStory
@CurlOfGradient take the program that generates all universes, add a predicate that searches the output for e.g. i7 CPUs2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@MoralOfStory See! Something tricky :)
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Replying to @CurlOfGradient
@CurlOfGradient I actually believed this for much more complicated reasons, but this proof is certainly shorter.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @MoralOfStory
@MoralOfStory Of course, this only picks out the first universe you find an i7 processor in, so you only know you've found one Earth.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 4 more replies
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