/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.15169077]

>build impossibly complex machine to take the data of the entire universe and calculate the future
>machine says I will be in texas next week
>go to florida instead
no free will tards utterly destroyed

[Anonymous No.15169082]

ever heard of this fucker called Gödel?

[Anonymous No.15169094]

>>15169077
This. There is nothing to stop you doing something different from what the machine predicts if it tells you its prediction. The prediction changes the outcome and the machine can never catch up.

[Anonymous No.15169116]

>>15169094
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

[Anonymous No.15169117]

>>15169077
machine calculating deterministic outcome of universe cant exist inside universe, dumpass

[Anonymous No.15169118]

>>15169077
>somehow, by freak coincidence, end up in Florida instead
oops

[Anonymous No.15169146]

but what if there's another machine who's answer you don't have access to?
it would correctly predict the original machine's answer and your response to it.

[Anonymous No.15169149]

>>15169077
>Mfw when you were speeding
>the police catch you
>the extradite you to Texas, becase you ran over a cow

[Anonymous No.15169157]

>>15169077
>machine says I will be in texas next week
>go to florida instead
Your machine is broken.

[Anonymous No.15169198]

>>15169077
The machine said I'd be inside your mum every night this year and it has been right so far

[Anonymous No.15169211]

>>15169077
>texas declares war, invades florida

[Anonymous No.15169217]

>>15169077
>build impossibly complex machine
>impossibly
That's the key word.

[Anonymous No.15169236]

>>15169077
The impossibly complex machine can only be the universe itself.

[Anonymous No.15169248]

Determinists coping hard itt

[Anonymous No.15169250]

op on left, /sci/ catalog on right