Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 September 2009 01:47AM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 27 September 2009 01:44:40PM 3 points [-]

I've been thinking about this topic, off and on, at least since September 1997, when I joined the Extropians mailing list... What are the chances that we're still trying to figure this out 12 years later?

Not small. I read that list and similar forums in the early 90s before becoming an AGI relinquishmentarian till about 2 years ago. When coming back to the discussions, I was astonished how most of the topics on discussion were essentially the same ones I remembered from 15 years earlier.