LauraABJ comments on Anticipation vs. Faith: At What Cost Rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: LauraABJ 13 October 2009 02:07:15AM 1 point [-]

I believe this idea has been played out in numerous works of science fiction (Kurt Vonnegut's Tralfamidorians for example). It's difficult to comprehend what it would be like to know/understand the future so well as to not anticipate it, and thus I cannot say if I would 'give it up.' I think Eliezer is right though- there would probably be no dramatic choice in the matter; either we understand or we don't.