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    1. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 9
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      "Timelapse of the Future" (by @musicalscience , via @juanbenet) is stunning: an evocation of the entire future of the Universe. The rate of time doubles every 5 seconds, through ~400 doublings(!!). Gorgeous. We're in a golden age of explanation, IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA …pic.twitter.com/iJjtNxE2UR

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    2. David Deutsch‏ @DavidDeutschOxf Jun 9
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @musicalscience @juanbenet

      Most, perhaps even all, of those things will happen if and only if people want them to.

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      michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 9
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      Replying to @DavidDeutschOxf @musicalscience @juanbenet

      What a great (implied) set of questions! Just how much contingency is there in the futures in this (class of) video? What human choices would make it really radically different?

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 9
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @DavidDeutschOxf and

          I think there's a fun set of ideas for video games here. Something that bugs me about many "open world" games is that they superficially seem to offer you freedom, but really trap you inside a fairly boring finite state machine.

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        3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 9
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @DavidDeutschOxf and

          It's like "Choose Your Own Adventure". Locally, the text can be pretty rich. But globally you know your inside what is usually a rather dull structure.

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        4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jun 9
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @DavidDeutschOxf and

          But if the design choices humanity makes are affecting things like whether the universe ultimately suffers heat death or not... that's exciting, and makes the finite state machine have intrinsically interesting stakes associated to the choices.

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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @DavidDeutschOxf and

          In this view, the video as is is a bit like @flantz's "Universal Paperclips" game, where there is (basically) one inevitable future for the Universe; a single state machine. It's wonderful and terrible. But it's a fun design challenge to imagine broadening that state machine

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        1. X Belief‏ @x_belief Jun 9
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @DavidDeutschOxf and

          Choose to be God or be dead. Asimov already answered the last question.

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        1. Johnny Appleseed‏ @trajanfilipov Jun 9
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @DavidDeutschOxf and

          Mainly the choices we can't predict getting to make.

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