chaos is not randomness. a deterministic universe still has sensitive dependence on initial conditions, the key trait of chaos. fluid dynamics is chaotic, so even arbitrarily superintelligent reasoners can’t get far ahead of physics before the sensitive dependence makes your prediction mismatch reality. this is true even if your mechanistic understanding is perfect and the universe isn’t random, so long as the system is in a chaotic regime and you don’t have perfect knowledge of its starting state.
chaos is not randomness. a deterministic universe still has sensitive dependence on initial conditions, the key trait of chaos. fluid dynamics is chaotic, so even arbitrarily superintelligent reasoners can’t get far ahead of physics before the sensitive dependence makes your prediction mismatch reality. this is true even if your mechanistic understanding is perfect and the universe isn’t random, so long as the system is in a chaotic regime and you don’t have perfect knowledge of its starting state.