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Comment by belter

4 days ago

If we can't even predict inflation rates maybe we should hold off on explaining the birth of the entire universe, yeah?

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daedrdev  4 days ago

Predicting inflation rates may be harder than discovering the birth of the universe actually, because it would require perfect knowledge of the present and by the time you compute it it's out of date.

  • belter  4 days ago

    We can claim to simulate the first femtoseconds of the universe...model nuclear detonations in software down to quantum effects....but 340 million citizens buying gas and groceries? That’s somehow beyond our grasp... :-)

    Maybe the problem isn’t complexity, but that science gets arrogant when it drifts into realms where its claims can’t be falsified ;-)

    • daedrdev  4 days ago

      The beginning of the universe is a start state we have theories about, that we can apply our system of physic to calculate once. A computer that calculates an economy might violate the halting problem because it would need to know when it itself is finished to calculate its own electricity costs, as well as every other algorithm in an economy.

    • jplusequalt  3 days ago

      >Maybe the problem isn’t complexity

      It most certainly is. Each of those 340 million citizens is a unique person, with unique circumstances. You can't fit an equation to that.

      >science gets arrogant where its claims can't be falsified

      This article proposes testable predictions?