A very brief explanation of why I'm not concerned about Boltzmann Brains http://the-lagrangian.blogspot.com/2016/05/why-you-probably-arent-random.html …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
@The_Lagrangian that's assuming boltzmann brains run on matter but it doesn't matter either way if you buy egan's dust hypothesis2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @allgebrah
@allgebrah looking at dust theory quickly, it seems to be the simulation hypothesis, which is a separate issue1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @The_Lagrangian
@The_Lagrangian dust theory is the idea that a computation is unaware of continuity breaks in the hardware running it1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @allgebrah
@The_Lagrangian suspend a program, send its state over the internet, continue elsewhere, the program won't care dust is the extreme of this1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @allgebrah
@The_Lagrangian you can even shuffle the execution steps around arbitrarily as long as the computation's internal arrow of time is preserved2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @allgebrah
@allgebrah@The_Lagrangian Shuffling execution steps can naively only be done after generating something to shuffle.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AlleleOfGene
@allgebrah@The_Lagrangian It seems as if the causal structure of computation is the computation, not the, uh, specific bits I suppose.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @AlleleOfGene
@AlleleOfGene@allgebrah@The_Lagrangian Yeah, sending a sim over the net preserves causality, dust hypothesis does not.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@AlleleOfGene @allgebrah @The_Lagrangian Having every permutation is different from running every computation if we require causal structure
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Replying to @ProofOfLogic
@ProofOfLogic@AlleleOfGene@The_Lagrangian actually the causal structure is perfectly well preserved (when seen from the inside)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @allgebrah
@allgebrah@AlleleOfGene@The_Lagrangian What if there isn't an inside when there's not an appropriate causal structure? That's my claim.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes - 16 more replies
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