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Scott Aaronson's review of the Tegmark's book is pretty great: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1753 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1753

• wfn 12y ago
  Will very much read it. Thanks for the link! (Also, that blog is kind of a big deal. Good stuff.)
  • dvanduzer 12y ago
    I'd say the best decision Scott made was naming his blog. (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number)
    • sjy 12y ago
      I still don't really get it. Brains are optimised to maintain friendships with approximately the population of a shtetl, but is there a connection to the blog's subject matter? I've been wondering this for years!
      • dvanduzer 12y ago
        As a layman, I find it easy to think about the poetry of a computational oracle rather than the math of it. A bunch of rabbis wandering around the village teaching each other what they can't learn individually, but reaching a consensus as a group.