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Gosh, I know it's a bit late, but I wish they'd called the product _The Prime Radiant_ Fans of Asimov's _Foundation_ series will appreciate the analogue to how
by timwis 3y ago
Gosh, I know it's a bit late, but I wish they'd called the product _The Prime Radiant_
Fans of Asimov's _Foundation_ series will appreciate the analogue to how this system aims to predict every eventuality based on every possible combination of events, a la psychohistory.
P.S. amazing intro post. Can't wait to try the product.
- rvnx 3y agoIt would be the opposite of the product: For a software not interacting with the real world, there is only one possibility for frame N+1, if you know the state of a system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism PRNG are illusions, just misunderstood by humans.
- samatman 3y agoDid you intend to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_algorithm?
- rvnx 3y agoNo, it is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon - Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (if you know the state of a system + all the rules then you can know the next state) and determinism actually applies way beyond just algorithms.
- timwis 3y agoFeels like I may have brought a spoon to a gun fight, but I would have considered psychohistory to be the ultimate extrapolation of determinism, and the fact that the prime radiant is able to predict _which_ version of events will happen is because it (somehow) knows the state of the system. Of course, to argue against myself, it would surely be based on layers of probabilities, and they say several times in the series that it can't predict low-level specific things, just high-level things. And perhaps the whole underlying question posed by the series is whether the universe really is deterministic. But anyway I don't think it's all off-base.