timtyler comments on Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 September 2009 06:31PM

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Comment author: timtyler 09 September 2009 06:43:23PM -2 points [-]

Right - but that's "Arthur C Clark-style magic" - stuff that is complicated and difficult - not the type of magic associated with mystical mumbo-jumbo.

We can live with some of the former type of magic - and it might even spice things up a bit.