Tim: The initial wavefunction may be completely determined by the laws, and under MWI that’s all you need.
Roko: I actually don’t notice much duplication between OB and SL4. It’s definitely worth reading.
Will: Why don’t you take it seriously? You know the Mandelbrot set is generated from very few bits, and I don’t imagine you expect there to be a simple derivation of its structures. Taken literally, your request is highly unreasonable because it involves so many levels of poorly understood processes—inflation, baryogenesis, galaxy formation… and the answer is probably infinite anyway. Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if a better physicist could produce a reasonable first-principles estimate of the number of baryons in the observable universe.
Tim: The initial wavefunction may be completely determined by the laws, and under MWI that’s all you need.
Roko: I actually don’t notice much duplication between OB and SL4. It’s definitely worth reading.
Will: Why don’t you take it seriously? You know the Mandelbrot set is generated from very few bits, and I don’t imagine you expect there to be a simple derivation of its structures. Taken literally, your request is highly unreasonable because it involves so many levels of poorly understood processes—inflation, baryogenesis, galaxy formation… and the answer is probably infinite anyway. Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if a better physicist could produce a reasonable first-principles estimate of the number of baryons in the observable universe.
Jed: Or many-worlds.