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Re:Higher-level causation exists (but I wish it didn’t) by mileszim on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:59PM (#14484623)
The remark on the Aharonov post-selection is weird coming from Aaronson's usual hard adherence to known physics - postselection is relevant in the quantum world only. For Aaronson to twist it into an argument of cosmology seems markedly out of character.
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Re:Higher-level causation exists (but I wish it didn’t) by yakult on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:02PM (#14484641)
It is, of course, a joke. He's doing a reductio ad absurdem at the end of a tightly argued post about information theory.

It's the advantage of doing a blog post rather than a paper, I suppose.

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Re:Higher-level causation exists (but I wish it didn’t) by mileszim on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:10PM (#14484672)
Good point, I liked the work he's criticizing so I think I'm currently primed to take the post too seriously
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