Allan Crossman: Only if they believe that their decision somehow causes the other to make the same decision.
No line of causality from one to the other is required.
If a computer finds that (2^3021377)-1 is prime, it can also conclude
that an identical computer a light year away will do the same. This
doesn’t mean one computation caused the other.
The decisions of perfectly rational optimization processes are just as
deterministic.
Allan Crossman: Only if they believe that their decision somehow causes the other to make the same decision.
No line of causality from one to the other is required.
If a computer finds that (2^3021377)-1 is prime, it can also conclude that an identical computer a light year away will do the same. This doesn’t mean one computation caused the other.
The decisions of perfectly rational optimization processes are just as deterministic.