Re: Causality

Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Mon, 09 Dec 1996 22:50:50 -0600

> >Suppose someone wants to bring about some event, and as a means of
> >doing so, propagates a meme. What kind of causality is supposed to be
> >at work here?
> >
> >Lyle
>
> Stochastic cascade causality.

Computational causality; I could get a Turing machine to follow that
strategy.

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