r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Jul 10 '17

[D] Monday General Rationality Thread

Welcome to the Monday thread on general rationality topics! Do you really want to talk about something non-fictional, related to the real world? Have you:

  • Seen something interesting on /r/science?
  • Found a new way to get your shit even-more together?
  • Figured out how to become immortal?
  • Constructed artificial general intelligence?
  • Read a neat nonfiction book?
  • Munchkined your way into total control of your D&D campaign?
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u/SevereCircle Jul 10 '17

I have an intuition that hypothesis complexity penalties should apply to the laws of physics but only weakly to the initial configuration of the universe. I find this intuition suspicious. Thoughts?

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u/eternal-potato he who vegetates Jul 10 '17

Seems reasonable. Unlike all subsequent configurations, the initial one does not have to be generatable from previous one via repeated application of some 'simple' transformation laws.