wedrifid comments on Should I believe what the SIAI claims? - Less Wrong

23 Post author: XiXiDu 12 August 2010 02:33PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 13 August 2010 07:18:11AM 0 points [-]

The very reason Robin was brought up (by you I might add) was to serve as an ad absurdum with respect to intellectual disrespect.

One problem I have with your argument here is that you appear to be saying that if XiXiDu doesn't agree with you, he must be stupid (the stuff about low g etc.). Do you think Robin Hanson is stupid too, since he wasn't convinced?

In the Convenient World where Robin is, in fact, too stupid to correctly tackle the concept of QS, understand the difference between MWI and QI or form a sophisticated understanding of his moral intuitions with respect to quantum uncertainty this Counterfactual-Stupid-Robin is a completely useless example.