Re: What are the consequences of UD+ASSA?

2007-10-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 26-oct.-07, à 20:18, Brent Meeker a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote: ... Is God good? Well, according to Plato, accepting the rather natural theological interpretation of the Parmenides (like Plotinus), there is a sense to say that God is good, but probably not in the Christian sense

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2007-10-30 Thread jonni jemp
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Gerard 't Hooft: lecture, Determinism

2007-10-30 Thread andy gh
Hi, maybe of interest to some of you, Gerard 't Hooft is giving a special talk The Quantum General Relativity and Determinism November 2, 2007, 10 o'clock, HU-Berlin Erwin-Schrödinger-Zentrum. ... We propose to search for a deterministic theory underlying both General Relativity and Quantum

Gerard 't Hooft: lecture, Determinism

2007-10-30 Thread andy gh
Hi, maybe of interest to some of you, Gerard 't Hooft is giving a special talk The Quantum General Relativity and Determinism November 2, 2007, 10 o'clock, HU-Berlin Erwin-Schrödinger-Zentrum. ... We propose to search for a deterministic theory underlying both General Relativity and Quantum

Re: What are the consequences of UD+ASSA?

2007-10-30 Thread Rolf Nelson
In (3) the universe doesn't have a high aIgorithmic complexity. I should have said that in (3) our decisions don't have any consequences, so we disregard them even if we do care what happens in them. The end result is the same: I'll act as if I only live in (2). In the (3) I gave, you're

Re: What are the consequences of UD+ASSA?

2007-10-30 Thread Brent Meeker
Wei Dai wrote: Rolf Nelson wrote: In the (3) I gave, you're indexed so that the thermal fluctuation doesn't dissolve until November 1, so your actions still have consequences. Still not a problem: the space-time region that I can affect in (3) is too small (i.e., its measure is too

Re: What are the consequences of UD+ASSA?

2007-10-30 Thread Wei Dai
Rolf Nelson wrote: In the (3) I gave, you're indexed so that the thermal fluctuation doesn't dissolve until November 1, so your actions still have consequences. Still not a problem: the space-time region that I can affect in (3) is too small (i.e., its measure is too small, complexity too

Re: What are the consequences of UD+ASSA?

2007-10-30 Thread marc . geddes
On Oct 31, 3:28 pm, Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. For someone on a practical mission to write an AI that makes sensible decisions, perhaps the model can serve as a starting point and as illustration of how far away we still are from that goal. Heh. Yes, very interesting indeed.

Re: What are the consequences of UD+ASSA?

2007-10-30 Thread Brent Meeker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 31, 3:28 pm, Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. For someone on a practical mission to write an AI that makes sensible decisions, perhaps the model can serve as a starting point and as illustration of how far away we still are from that goal. Heh.