@puellavulnerata @RachelHaywire ...couldn't make head or tail of the work when I looked at it. Classical approach is v. unsatisfactory tho.
@puellavulnerata Finitists have lots of deep and valid criticisms of pretty much every step of that process. Lousy alternatives, ofc.
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@puellavulnerata But yeah, we only ever have access to finite amounts of information about bounded chunks of spacetime. That's the context> -
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@puellavulnerata Well, yeah, because that's baked into the toolkit. The initial step of representing smears of information... -
@puellavulnerata ...using infinite-precision atoms and then building back up, because the light's better under that particular lamppost. -
@puellavulnerata I certainly don't have any better ideas, though. I'm just an FG-module hacker.
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