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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is the Beginning of Infinity a Limit?

In an expanded universe, or there will be like a finite amount of total matter that will ever exist in our lig con right? There's a limit on the amount of a computation that this matter can execute. It would be weird if the g t p per atom could be arbitrarily large. So what you've just recounted i is a cosmological theoryis the universe could be like that. But, oh, we know very little about cosmology. And so it doesn't make all that much sense to speculate about what the ultimate asymtotic form of the cosmological theories will be. Now e i my guess, is that there are no such limits. My world view is

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