This one always bugged me.
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This one always bugged me. Now the universe probably isn't infinite, but sometimes people will say "but if it were then there would have to be a version of earth where everyone is a potato." or something similar.
Thing is. This doesn't track. For some reason it's easy to confuse infinite with ... everything. To confuse every possible variation with every describable variation.
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This one always bugged me. Now the universe probably isn't infinite, but sometimes people will say "but if it were then there would have to be a version of earth where everyone is a potato." or something similar.
Thing is. This doesn't track. For some reason it's easy to confuse infinite with ... everything. To confuse every possible variation with every describable variation.
Well, wait a minute.
Pi's decimal expansion is infinitely long.
Somewhere in Pi is source code and a database for a simulator that simulates a universe where there's an Earth where everyone is a potato.
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Well, wait a minute.
Pi's decimal expansion is infinitely long.
Somewhere in Pi is source code and a database for a simulator that simulates a universe where there's an Earth where everyone is a potato.
@vestige @futurebird except you could have an infinite random sequence that never contains a 3.
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Well, wait a minute.
Pi's decimal expansion is infinitely long.
Somewhere in Pi is source code and a database for a simulator that simulates a universe where there's an Earth where everyone is a potato.
IDK if we know enough about the way that pi is "random" to assume it is the kind of random that could produce this result.
And in many ways pi is totally predictable.
However, if you have a random number generator where every digit has and equal chance then this is functionally true.
But it's also not the same thing as "a world were everyone is a potato" because it's possible within the constraints of the system. Less easy to say that about the potatoes.
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