tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post8144699172398768992..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Some recommended readingSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-5844433490646650482012-02-02T21:57:37.711-05:002012-02-02T21:57:37.711-05:00Thanks RKU1. I'll be looking for it the next ...Thanks RKU1. I'll be looking for it the next time I'm in a used book store. In case anyone is interested there is a PDF of the story here: <br />http://poliscifi.pbworks.com/f/niven.pdfRichard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90147490442286402072012-02-02T19:28:43.942-05:002012-02-02T19:28:43.942-05:00Yes, it's a pretty good story and one of the f...Yes, it's a pretty good story and one of the few not set in Known Space or one of Niven's other two or three "universes". It's found in several of his different collections, so you should be able to find it pretty easily in a well-stocked used book store, or on-lineRKU1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-86518198562898704062012-02-02T18:57:32.321-05:002012-02-02T18:57:32.321-05:00RKU1 are you talking about "All the Myriad Wa...RKU1 are you talking about "All the Myriad Ways"? There is a post about it here: <br />http://vusf.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/cause-and-effect-in-a-probabilistic-multiverse/ I don't have that one among my 19 Niven books. Is it worth chasing down?Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-71093838803872470392012-02-01T23:03:19.141-05:002012-02-01T23:03:19.141-05:00Decades ago, Niven published an interesting SF spe...Decades ago, Niven published an interesting SF speculation on the psychological Heisenberg impact of Many Worlds becoming universally accepted as factually correct among the public. Essentially, people would start saying that if all their personal decisions were just being made along different simultaneous forks, they might as well just do whatever they felt like doing since that's exactly RKU1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-67587244766857791772012-02-01T10:24:30.831-05:002012-02-01T10:24:30.831-05:00The full paper is available at http://homepages.ed...The full paper is available at http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/qgjc/2010_2011/CommentaryOnYang.pdf<br /><br />HenryHenry Harpendinghttp://profiles.google.com/harpendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-41802639606116519512012-02-01T09:27:33.477-05:002012-02-01T09:27:33.477-05:00Thanks! I think it is fixed now...Thanks! I think it is fixed now...steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-64659435003347492502012-02-01T08:54:25.792-05:002012-02-01T08:54:25.792-05:00Steve your link "A commentary" is broken...Steve your link "A commentary" is broken.<br /><br />There is some kind of lesson about our current system of peer review in the fact that Visscher's crew had to shop their paper around.Henry Harpendinghttp://profiles.google.com/harpendnoreply@blogger.com