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points by kypro 3 days ago | 0 comments

> gives even more hope that some fundamental problems could be solved in our lifetime, for example understanding universe, aging, colonization of planets and also our limits.

There are infinitely many more ways to kill and torture a human than to save one.

[–] adverbly 3 days ago

Wrong. There are infinite ways of doing both.

[–] jwpapi 3 days ago

I honestly think they are both finite lol.

[–] aetherspawn 3 days ago

Yeah I think depends on the fidelity of the world model.

If you count “impales person with blue stick while distant asteroid is in position X Y Z” then yes, there are probably infinite, so it depends how you class a discrete method

[–] jwpapi 2 days ago

Okay I looked it up. I think the answer is here we don’t know it depends on if the physical world is discrete or not and we don’t know that yet.

[–] adverbly 3 days ago

Maybe.

Depends on what counts as a different way I guess.

And on if you're applying some kind of discrete physical model of the world or not...

[–] lanstin 2 days ago

Finite includes some very large numbers.