taw comments on Reference class of the unclassreferenceable - Less Wrong

25 Post author: taw 08 January 2010 04:13AM

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Comment author: taw 08 January 2010 11:11:00AM 1 point [-]

These are fine arguments, but they all take the inside view - focusing on particulars of a situation, not finding big robust reference classes to which the situation belongs.

And in any case you seem to be arguing for such inventions not being prohibited by laws of physics more than for them happening with very high probability in near future, as many here believe. As a reference class, things which are merely not prohibited by laws of physics almost never happen anyway - this class is just too huge.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 10 January 2010 04:39:43AM 7 points [-]

Things not prohibited by physics that humans want to happen don't happen eventually? Very far from clear.