Roko comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 01 January 2010 05:02PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 03 January 2010 06:55:51PM *  4 points [-]

A superhuman intelligence that understood the nature of human consciousness and subjective experience would presumably know whether QI was correct, incorrect, or somehow a wrong question. Consciousness and experience all happen within physics, they just currently confuse the hell out of us.

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Comment author: orthonormal 04 January 2010 05:10:37AM 1 point [-]

Neat paper!

Comment author: pdf23ds 05 January 2010 11:14:46PM -1 points [-]

As I understand it, it makes a prediction about your future experience (and the MWI measure of that experience)--not dying. Is that not falsifiable? I suppose you could argue that it's a logical and inescapable consequence of MWI, and not in itself falsifiable, but that doesn't seem like an important distinction.

I don't see how Tegmark's paper is relevant to this question.