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Constructor Theory of Information — HN submission

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 06:12:28 GMT

Constructor Theory of Information (2014)

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Constructor Theory of Information — mentioned by foxes

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:55:51 GMT

This often gets posted on HN but I am yet to see anything new or that deep. Their original paper is very light on detail [0]. Whatever objects you are working with in physics, is there some internal language or type theory that lets you describe physics? Seems like they want to take that kind of angle but haven't realised it. Until they have the machinery to do something kind of concrete, or at least produce some mathematics, seems like its just hand waving. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.5563.pdf

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Constructor Theory of Information — HN submission

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:06:55 GMT

Constructor Theory of Information

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Constructor Theory of Information — mentioned by PeterWhittaker

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:09:23 GMT

Take a look at David Deutsch's work on quantum mechanics, information theory, quantum computing, etc. I especially like http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5563 Cool stuff. (Related, possibly, is the concept that QM is simply probability with ranges from [-1,1] instead of the traditional [0,1]: Negative probabilities imply things that happen that we cannot measure. Or something like that, it's been a while.) (Now if only I could find that wicked cool graphic showing the hierarchy of mathematics (ZFC or something near the bottom) and physics (QM and GR, sitting atop currently irreconcilable branches of…

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Constructor Theory of Information — HN submission

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:49:57 GMT

Constructor Theory of Information

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Constructor Theory of Information — mentioned by saint-loup

Tue, 27 May 2014 11:18:32 GMT

David Deutsch, coauthor of the paper, is not without credibility in the field of quantum computing, to say the least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch It's obviously a speculative theory, but it's a welcomed endeavor, since the field is sorely lacking conceptual frameworks to make sense of scientific advances. Link to the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5563

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Constructor Theory of Information — mentioned by Snail_Commando

Tue, 27 May 2014 06:21:30 GMT

Per `dang's suggestion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7803158, here's the link to the paper so that we may consolidate the threads: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5563 Edited to steal more screenspace/add context: Authors: https://web.archive.org/web/20120402224250/http://193.189.74... http://edge.org/memberbio/chiara_marletto You may also be interested in this paper: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Deutsch_quantu... Also, http://edge.org/conversation/constructor-theory

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Constructor Theory of Information — HN submission

Tue, 27 May 2014 05:31:53 GMT

Constructor Theory of Information

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