“The idea is that all the existing things are finite and descended of finite causal graphs. This could potentially be true of a countably infinite set of finite things. But something with an infinite past is not a finite point to obtain some realityfluid from its finite past.”
This is from the invite-only fanfic Discord, not from fanfic itself. I’m not sure I should be sharing it, because I assume a degree of expected privacy, so I won’t share any more direct quotes. But I hope this much is okay; I model Yudkowsky as wanting people to better understand this stuff.
Eli wrote:
“The idea is that all the existing things are finite and descended of finite causal graphs. This could potentially be true of a countably infinite set of finite things. But something with an infinite past is not a finite point to obtain some realityfluid from its finite past.”
This is from the invite-only fanfic Discord, not from fanfic itself. I’m not sure I should be sharing it, because I assume a degree of expected privacy, so I won’t share any more direct quotes. But I hope this much is okay; I model Yudkowsky as wanting people to better understand this stuff.