RobinZ comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: RobinZ 15 July 2009 03:59:46PM 5 points [-]

You do realize this comment makes you sound like a nutter, right? Unless you actually explain your reasoning, the prior probability that your claim is simply wrong grossly overwhelms the odds that you are right. There is literally only one human being on the planet whose honesty and judgement I would trust sufficiently to motivate checking a claim like this, reasoning unseen - why you would expect a stranger to do so is beyond me. In fact, the implication that you even consider such an event possible ... you do realize it makes you sound like a nutter, right?

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Comment author: RobinZ 15 July 2009 06:35:29PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure that's a good idea for a number of reasons, but if that's the way you want to play it I'm willing to go along - just say the word.