Wei_Dai comments on Metaphilosophical Mysteries - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 28 July 2010 08:15:44AM 2 points [-]

The timeless/updateless/acausal intuitions come from the human intuitions about pride, dignity, honor, etc, which were developed because humans interacted with other humans.

Umm... I first thought of the updateless idea while trying to figure out anthropic reasoning. I fail to see how that had anything to do with pride, dignity, honor, etc.