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points by jwpapi 3 days ago | 0 comments
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.