red75 comments on Imagine a world where minds run on physics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: red75 10 December 2011 11:26:22AM *  1 point [-]

One year and one level-up (thanks to ai-class.com) after this comment I'm still in the dark about the cause of downvoting the above comment.

I'm sorry for whining, but my curiosity took me over. Any comments?

Comment author: homunq 10 December 2011 03:35:58PM 2 points [-]

It wasn't me, but I suspect the poor grammar didn't help. It makes it hard to understand what you were getting at.

Comment author: red75 10 December 2011 06:35:57PM 0 points [-]

Thank you. It is something I can use for improvement.

Can you point at the flaws? I can see that the structure of sentences is overcomplicated, but I don't know how it feels to native English speakers. Foreigner? Dork? Grammar Illiterate? I appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

Comment author: homunq 11 December 2011 02:10:43PM 0 points [-]

Actually, a bit of all three. The one you can control the most is probably "dork", which unpacks as "someone with complex ideas who is too impatient/show-offy to explain their idiosyncratic jargon".

I'm a native English speaker, and I know that I still frequently sound "dorky" in that sense when I try to be too succinct.

Comment author: red75 12 December 2011 06:19:48AM 0 points [-]

It is valuable information, thanks. I underestimated relative weight of communication style in the feedback I got.

Comment author: TimS 10 December 2011 07:29:53PM *  0 points [-]

Also, interesting thing happens if by the whim of the creator computer is given a goal of tiling universe with most common still life in it and universe is possibly infinite.

Respectfully, I don't know what this sentence means. In particular, I don't know what "most common still life" meant. That made it difficult to decipher the rest of the comment.

ETA: Thanks to the comment below, I understand a little better, but now I'm not sure what motivates invoking the possibility of other agents, given that the discussion was about proving Friendliness.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2011 07:50:37PM 0 points [-]

In a cellular automaton, a still life is a pattern of cells which stays unchanged after each iteration.