Re: Parallel Universes

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 20:58:07 MST

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    Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
    > Lee Corbin wrote:
    >
    >>(Speaking about "splitting of worlds" sometimes has the
    >>drawback of giving rise to notions of increase in quantity.)
    >
    > ### But I thought that as the entropy of the universe increases, the amount
    > of information needed to describe it also increases. The state of the
    > universe at 10e-43 was very simple, but with every second you need to use
    > more bits to describe the evolving entity. Splitting adds to the amount of
    > data contained in the whole ensemble of universes, doesn't it?

    No, it greatly decreases it, actually. Tegmark discusses this.

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    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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