Will_Newsome comments on Theists are wrong; is theism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 20 January 2011 07:03:26PM -2 points [-]

Maybe you should stop doing that, if it's leading you to say things like "I mean something like Christ set it up such that we're more likely to have a positive singularity".

Why?

Assuming that the other people you encounter inhabit the same reality as you — and I suspect you'll be able to find something about that to object to, but you know what I mean :P — what is subjective about it?

Existence is probably tied up with causal significance, and causal significance is tied up with individuals' local utility functions along with this more global probability thing. But around singularities where lots of utility is up for grabs it might be that the local utility differences override the global similarities of how existence works. I haven't thought about this carefully. Hence the question mark.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 January 2011 02:44:29PM 0 points [-]

Request for downvote explanation.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 26 January 2011 01:46:25AM 0 points [-]

I upvoted, even though I didn't fully grok your last paragraph, I sensed interesting meaning embedded in it. Care to elaborate?

Comment author: Desrtopa 26 January 2011 01:49:15AM 0 points [-]

I did not downvote, not having read the comment previously but "existence is probably tied up with causal significance" sounds extremely dubious and in need of justification.

Comment author: Kevin 24 January 2011 03:31:10PM *  0 points [-]

They didn't understand what you meant and mapped it as something else that was wrong. Also possible political downvote.