@The_Lagrangian suspend a program, send its state over the internet, continue elsewhere, the program won't care
dust is the extreme of this
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@The_Lagrangian you can even shuffle the execution steps around arbitrarily as long as the computation's internal arrow of time is preserved
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@The_Lagrangian Shuffling execution steps can naively only be done after generating something to shuffle.
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@The_Lagrangian It seems as if the causal structure of computation is the computation, not the, uh, specific bits I suppose.
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@The_Lagrangian Yeah, sending a sim over the net preserves causality, dust hypothesis does not.
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@The_Lagrangian Having every permutation is different from running every computation if we require causal structure
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@The_Lagrangian actually the causal structure is perfectly well preserved (when seen from the inside)
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@The_Lagrangian What if there isn't an inside when there's not an appropriate causal structure? That's my claim.
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@The_Lagrangian thought experiment: take a machine with finite states, the computation is a path through these
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@The_Lagrangian step 1: compute a few (or a lot) of these transitions
step 2: compute one
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@The_Lagrangian now take [2] and one transition from [1] so that "[2], then [1]" is causally coherent
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@The_Lagrangian all under the assumption that you somehow need to "physically realize" a computation
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@The_Lagrangian this is shuffling the computation in outside causality while inner causality is preserved
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