hegemonicon comments on Alien parasite technical guy - Less Wrong

61 Post author: PhilGoetz 27 July 2010 04:51PM

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Comment author: Blueberry 27 July 2010 07:03:48PM 10 points [-]

Consciousness is a failure mode. He was trusted with root access, and he's spent the last hundred thousand years or so abusing it.

What? No, the whole point of this post, the whole problem, is that consciousness does not have root access.

Comment author: hegemonicon 27 July 2010 07:17:29PM 4 points [-]

Substitute "behavioral control" for "root access" for something closer to my intended meaning (I couldn't resist going with the metaphor, but it doesn't really work).