Re: Causality

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Dec 09 1996 - 21:50:50 MST

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> >Suppose someone wants to bring about some event, and as a means of
> >doing so, propagates a meme. What kind of causality is supposed to be
> >at work here?
> >
> >Lyle
>
> Stochastic cascade causality.

Computational causality; I could get a Turing machine to follow that
strategy.

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