BWBC7/ Given program U, it's pretty trivial to make a program U' that's mostly the same, but with a few tweeks.
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BWBC8/ For example, imagine program V, which runs Conway's Game of Life arranged to run a computer running program U.
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BWBC9/ Or imagine program W. For this program, at T = now, we'll swap a volume enclosing your building with an equivalent volume on mars.
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BWBC10/ We can add spacesuits, too. After a few hours, we'll synthesize the you from W, and ask them what mars was like.
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BWBC11/ Just to prove that a version of you really experienced that.
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BWBC12/ W is well defined and exists, but hasn't been written down anywhere. It's output exists just like the 10^100th digit of pi exists.
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BWBC13/ There's a real copy of you in W that really does frolic on mars. You must believe this, or that the universe is not computable.
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@MoralOfStory "computable" ≠ computationally feasible given all resources in the visible universe. Where are your falsifiable predictions?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ejlflop The predictions are a long time coming. I started here but got bogged down.https://twitter.com/MoralOfStory/status/633372539448893440 …Moral Of Story added,
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@ejlflop But anyway the predictions don't come in until we start asking if the model is correct.
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@ejlflop This is just explaining the model so far.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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