Alicorn comments on Your Most Valuable Skill - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Alicorn 27 September 2009 05:01PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 28 September 2009 03:17:11PM 0 points [-]

"Object permanence" is a skill?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 September 2009 04:23:01PM 1 point [-]

Of your parietal cortex, one assumes.

Comment author: Alicorn 28 September 2009 04:30:53PM 3 points [-]

Oh, I see. The ability to perceive/understand the permanence of objects, not the ability to be a permanent object.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 28 September 2009 06:42:42PM 5 points [-]

Though I suppose the ability to not be a permanent object might be useful for e.g. walking through walls.

Unless it meant that you ceased existing at all, of course.

Comment author: Epsilon725 12 September 2013 06:46:09AM 0 points [-]

Alternatively, it could result in falling through the floor, and being trapped in the Earth's core for all of eternity... Or until you die, whichever comes sooner.