RobinZ comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 12 June 2010 07:47:17PM 2 points [-]

I think that if this post is left as it is this post would be to trivial to be a top level post. You could reframe it as a beginners' guide to Occam, or you could make it more interesting by going deeper into some of the issues (if you can think of anything more to say on the topic of differentiating between hypotheses that make the same predictions, that might be interesting, although I think you might have said all there is to say)

Comment author: RobinZ 13 June 2010 12:11:53PM 0 points [-]

There's also the option of actually extending the post to actually address the problem it alludes to in the title, the so-called "hard problem of consciousness".

Comment author: SilasBarta 13 June 2010 07:16:18PM 2 points [-]

Eh, it was just supposed to be an allusion to that problem, with the implication that the "easy problem of tree vibrations" is the one EY attacked (Question Y in the draft). Solving the hard problem of consciousness is a bit of a tall order for this article...