Re: poly: polymath digest for 09 Dec 97

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> Anders Sandberg writes:
> > I think the uneasiness with cramming infinite computations into finite
> > time stems a lot from the view that the outside position somehow is
> > more privileged than the inside position.
>
> My discomfort comes largely because I'm not at all certain that I at
> all believe the claim of infinite computation in finite time.

That seems to be a separate problem. ICIFI (to abbreviate it a bit)
seems to be only possible under very unusual circumstances (under
normal circumstances the Bekenstein bound, the lightspeed limit etc
would stop it), and I have hypothised that ICIFI is only possible as
the c-boundary of spacetime is reached; i.e. you cannot have a ICIFI
phenomenon loose in the universe. So far we have no evidence that
ICIFI is possible in practice, although it cannot be ruled out either
in some cases.

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