From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 20:58:07 MST
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.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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