SilasBarta comments on Rationality Quotes: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 03 July 2010 02:06:13AM *  2 points [-]

Thank you much, and I definitely see the similarity with what you posted.

I may indeed be running into the problem of letting "good enough" become the enemy of "at all". I'll try to get these articles up in some presentable form soon.

Comment author: cousin_it 05 July 2010 01:01:30PM *  1 point [-]

The drafts you've been posting lately are interesting to me, and I'd like to see them fleshed out into top-level posts. I would also suggest adding external material and references to give more context to your thought experiments.

Comment author: SilasBarta 05 July 2010 05:20:22PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks. But that's one of my difficulties. I read a lot of stuff and so these ideas just "come together". I don't even know if there is a source that agrees with this idea. As it stands now, the only sources I believe I'd be able to cite are some of Gary Drescher's discussion of qualia, and the information-theoretic basics of how compression works, and what makes it more or less effective.

Any suggestions (specific suggestions) for how to find the external references that would be relevant to this topic or the other one's I've posted recently?

By the way: I started keeping a list of planned top-level articles on my Wiki page.