gwern comments on Parapsychology: the control group for science - Less Wrong

62 Post author: AllanCrossman 05 December 2009 10:50PM

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Comment author: gwern 08 December 2009 09:45:38PM 0 points [-]

Wait, there has to be an observer? I thought you were really just talking about entangled wave-functions etc.

Comment author: SilasBarta 09 December 2009 11:20:26PM 1 point [-]

No, that's the point Jack brought up. I was only discussing the issues that arise in the hypothetical scenario in which the universe is simulated in an "overworld" and must successfully continue to fool us.