Re: Simulation argument in the NY Times

From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 22:05:24 MDT


On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:51:33PM -0700, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >
> >Like say, for example, floating point errors at the extreme
> >margins of the large and small?
> >
> >Would look a lot like quantum uncertainty, don't you think?
>
> Wouldn't look anything remotely like quantum uncertainty. For one
> thing you couldn't do quantum computing with it.

Sorry, should have had a smiley.

-Robin

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