Eliezer_Yudkowsky 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: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 September 2009 08:14:48AM 3 points [-]

No, I'm referring to the fact that people are crazy and the world is mad. You don't need to reach so hard for an explanation of why no one's invented UDT yet when many-worlds wasn't invented for thirty years.

Comment author: CarlShulman 16 September 2009 02:57:56AM 4 points [-]

I also don't think general madness is enough of an explanation. Both are counterintuitive ideas in areas without well-established methods to verify progress, e.g. building a working machine or standard mathematical proof techniques.