it might help with getting a robust pointer to the start of the time snippet.
That’s mainly what I meant, yes.
Specifying what the heck a physics is seems much more tractable to me.We don’t have a neat theory of quantum gravity, but a lattice simulation of quantum field theory in curved space-time, or just a computer game world populated by characters controlled by neural networks, seems pretty straightforward to formally specify. We could probably start coding that up right now.
What we lack is a pointer to the right initial conditions for the simulation. The wave function of Earth in case of the lattice qft setup, or the human uploads as neural network parameters in case of the game environment.
That’s mainly what I meant, yes.
Specifying what the heck a physics is seems much more tractable to me.We don’t have a neat theory of quantum gravity, but a lattice simulation of quantum field theory in curved space-time, or just a computer game world populated by characters controlled by neural networks, seems pretty straightforward to formally specify. We could probably start coding that up right now.
What we lack is a pointer to the right initial conditions for the simulation. The wave function of Earth in case of the lattice qft setup, or the human uploads as neural network parameters in case of the game environment.