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Algorithmic Theories of Everything (2000)
- techbio 6y agoGoing from the title, it's all just a materialized Fibonacci Heap (though the abstract would disagree with me).
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- jarym 6y agoWell I’d love to give GPT3 the abstract as a starting point and see what comes out the other end!
- msapaydin 6y agoHere is what comes out: "The history of our universe is a sequence of random events. Each event is the result of a very small probability, and the events are independent of each other. The probability that any particular event will happen is very small. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice in a row is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen three times in a row is even smaller. And so on."
- whymauri 6y ago"The probability that any particular event will happen is very small. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice in a row is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen three times in a row is even smaller." This sounds like a meta-joke, lol.
- taberiand 6y ago"So the probability that any particular event will happen four times in a row is looking a little suspicious. Five is right out"
- ooobit2 6y ago"And I'm not even going to entertain the probability of six, though I can confirm it will be exactly as many degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon."
- cmehdy 6y ago“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” - Terry Pratchett
- msapaydin 6y agoAnother attempt to gpt-3 filtering the intro section of the paper: This book is about how we can guess what will happen in the future. The first chapter is about how we can guess the next number in a sequence. The second chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a sentence. The third chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a book. The fourth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written. The fifth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written
- msapaydin 6y agoThis is also gpt-3 output based on the abstract as if explaining to an eight grader: The theory of everything (TOE) is a mathematical formula that can predict everything that will happen in the future. It is a theory of everything, so it can predict what will happen to the universe, and to us. We assume that the TOE is simple enough for us to understand, but we don't know for sure.
- platz 6y agothe hype cycle is alive and well!
- mcswell 6y agoI'll save you the trouble. It's 42.
- m3kw9 6y agoCan someone explain in layman’s terms?
- GrantS 6y agoELI5 is: If the universe is computable, might we be in the simplest computable universe or the fastest computable universe? Can computer science and math help us figure out the reasons for the physics that run our world?
- Or_does_not 6y ago'Others, are... (whispers) antipoles' Ask yourself: 'Mister, if i believed you, who'd believe me ?' (-;
- ksr 6y agoWhen all the combinations have been played out, the universe will halt.
- earleybird 6y agoInfinite rewrite due to a non applicative Y combinator :-)
- mcswell 6y agoLike this? https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.html https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
- scribu 6y agoIMHO, a better title would be "Probabilistic Theories Of Everything" Contrast with the recent work from David Deutsch, which eliminates all probabilities from physics. Intro to Constructor Theory: https://youtu.be/wfzSE4Hoxbc https://youtu.be/wfzSE4Hoxbc
- platz 6y agothis is basically just what happens in any deterministic hidden variable theory
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoYeah, the aliens who are simulating us could be using a 64 bit prng at the quantum level and we would still never know the difference, because our measurement technology isn't there. The universe would be deterministic but it's unlikely that we'd ever be able to prove it, unless they left breadcrumbs intentionally.
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- cromwellian 6y agoIf I read this right, it's saying we live in a universe with either a short program, or a fast program (program here means theory). From an algorithmic information theory standpoint, this seems to suggest whatever fundamental theory of physics we find, it'll be short. I'm wondering if this points more to a cellular automata style theory being at the root of reality. Maybe Wolfram was right?
- amelius 6y agoWhy are we not living in a universe with all possible theories (short and long), and there is only one of these theories which we actually see? Of course, enumerating all possible theories might be actually a simple program ...
- 0-_-0 6y ago>Why are we not living in a universe with all possible theories? We are! At least if the article's assumptions are correct, which I think they are.
- smaddox 6y agoWolfram actually touches on this near the end of his fairly recent blog post discussing recent advancements he and his collaborators have made on this topic: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
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- thecupisblue 6y agoI assume it's a simple "cellular automata style theory", a coroutine like recursive function that once we discover, we will notice is obvious at every scale we look at. Wolfram is definitely heading in the right direction. I remember a movie called Digital Physics having a similar plot.
- xenonite 6y agoJürgen Schmidhuber, in the year 2000