CarlShulman comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 20 February 2010 04:41:55PM *  13 points [-]

Dawkins is a very high-quality thinker, as his scientific writings reveal. The fact that he has also published "elementary" rationalist material in no way takes away from this.

He's way, way far above the level represented by the participants in his namesake forum.

(I'd give even odds that EY could persuade him to sign up for cryonics in an hour or less.)

Comment author: CarlShulman 20 August 2010 05:39:00AM *  6 points [-]

Here's Dawkins on some non socially-reinforced views: AI, psychometrics, and quantum mechanics (in the last 2 minutes, saying MWI is slightly less weird than Copenhagen, but that the proliferation of branches is uneconomical).