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> Making things quantum-mechanical makes them harder to simulate, not easier. The universe apparently doesn’t think so. In fact there’s an argument that, in so
by antonvs 3y ago
> Making things quantum-mechanical makes them harder to simulate, not easier.
The universe apparently doesn’t think so. In fact there’s an argument that, in some sense, what the universe does should be one of the easiest ways to do it, otherwise the existence of the universe would be much more unlikely.
- drdeca 3y agoThat seems to be assuming the speed prior (or perhaps memory-use prior, or some combination of the two). The Kolmogorov prior (i.e. the program length prior) doesn’t have that property.