CarlShulman comments on "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 February 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 24 February 2010 11:36:34PM 1 point [-]

Many-worlds has made steady progress since it was invented. Especially early on, trying to bring in diversity would get you some many-worlds proponents rather than none, and their views would tend to spread.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 February 2010 02:10:54AM *  1 point [-]

Think of how much more progress could have been made if the early many-worlds proponents had gotten together and formed a private colloquium of the sane, providing only that they had access to the same amount of per capita grant funding (this latter point being not about a need for diversity but a need to pander to gatekeepers).