Hmm, just read that story before checking your spoiler and it was interesting, even despite the author’s poor grasp of the physics he tried to explain. A light ray going from point A to point B is not taking the shortest path (measured in time) because it wants to reach B, the point B is merely a point on the geodesic curve the light ray is currently travelling along.
In other words, these light rays are taking the least time to reach the points they pass without intending to reach them, the points are just in the way.
That said, thanks for the recommendation! This story was still pretty good.
V qvfnterr gung gurfr nyvraf ner sbyybjvat GQG (be nal bgure qrpvfvba gurbel sbe gung znggre), fvapr gurl ner nyjnlf npgvat va n cerqrgrezvarq znaare naq arire npghnyyl znxr nal qrpvfvbaf. Gur jubyr pbaprcg bs n qrpvfvba gurbel jbhyq zrnavatyrff gb gurz.
What are your philosophical quibbles with TDT, if I may ask?
agree with your rot13. I guess it mostly just seemed related enough to be worth mentioning.
What are your philosophical quibbles with TDT, if I may ask?
A bunch of inferences which arise from the following: statement: “The supposition that an idealized rational agent’s mind interacts with the universe in any way other than via the actions it chooses to carry out contains logical paradoxes.”
I’m not confident in the opinion, it just represents my current state of understanding. When I’ve fleshed it out better in my head I will write it up and display it for criticism, unless I realize it is wrong during the intervening time (which is quite likely). One potential consequence is that TDT might ultimately be impossible to fully formalize without paradox via self-reference. The conclusion is that CDT is correct, as long as you follow the no-mind-reading rule. I reconstruct Newcombs and similar problems in such a way that the problem is similar but we aren’t reading the agent’s mind, and seem to always arrive at winning answers.
It is clear that the ending would have been very different had the author heard about TDT.
Check out “Story of your life” by the same author.
Ur’f znqr nyvraf jub jbhyq cebonoyl bcrengr ol GQG, zl cuvybfbcuvpny dhvooyrf jvgu GQG abgjvgufgnaqvat.
Hmm, just read that story before checking your spoiler and it was interesting, even despite the author’s poor grasp of the physics he tried to explain. A light ray going from point A to point B is not taking the shortest path (measured in time) because it wants to reach B, the point B is merely a point on the geodesic curve the light ray is currently travelling along.
In other words, these light rays are taking the least time to reach the points they pass without intending to reach them, the points are just in the way.
That said, thanks for the recommendation! This story was still pretty good.
V qvfnterr gung gurfr nyvraf ner sbyybjvat GQG (be nal bgure qrpvfvba gurbel sbe gung znggre), fvapr gurl ner nyjnlf npgvat va n cerqrgrezvarq znaare naq arire npghnyyl znxr nal qrpvfvbaf. Gur jubyr pbaprcg bs n qrpvfvba gurbel jbhyq zrnavatyrff gb gurz.
What are your philosophical quibbles with TDT, if I may ask?
agree with your rot13. I guess it mostly just seemed related enough to be worth mentioning.
A bunch of inferences which arise from the following: statement: “The supposition that an idealized rational agent’s mind interacts with the universe in any way other than via the actions it chooses to carry out contains logical paradoxes.”
I’m not confident in the opinion, it just represents my current state of understanding. When I’ve fleshed it out better in my head I will write it up and display it for criticism, unless I realize it is wrong during the intervening time (which is quite likely). One potential consequence is that TDT might ultimately be impossible to fully formalize without paradox via self-reference. The conclusion is that CDT is correct, as long as you follow the no-mind-reading rule. I reconstruct Newcombs and similar problems in such a way that the problem is similar but we aren’t reading the agent’s mind, and seem to always arrive at winning answers.