Post #1362000

An early hint of Gwern's rejection of chaos theory in [the sequences from 2008](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god) (the "build God to conquer Death" essay): > And the adults wouldn't be in so much danger. A superintelligence—a mind that could think a trillion thoughts without a misstep—would not be intimidated by a challenge where death is the price of a single failure. The raw universe wouldn't seem so harsh, would be only another problem to be solved. Someone who got to high-school math or coded a working system would probably have encountered the combinatorial explosion, the impossibility of representing 0.1 as a floating-point binary, Chaos Theory, and so on. Even Games Theory has situations like "in some games, optimal play guarantees a tie but not a win." But Yud was much too special for any of those and refused offers to learn.