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Comment author: ata 21 January 2011 12:55:43AM 0 points [-]

Have you read the paper? I'm not convinced of it for a few reasons, but I'd consider it located at least.

Comment author: Perplexed 21 January 2011 01:51:21AM 0 points [-]

Have you read the paper?

Yes, I had read Bostrom's paper.

I'm not convinced of it for a few reasons, but I'd consider it located at least.

I would express my opinion of that argument using less litotes. But as to locating the hypotheses, I suppose I agree.

Which leads me to ask, have you read the catechism? Like most Catholic schoolchildren, I was encouraged to memorize much of it in elementary school, though I have since forgotten almost all of it. It also locates one hypothesis, a hypothesis considerably more popular than Bostrom's.

Comment author: wedrifid 21 January 2011 01:54:50AM *  0 points [-]

I would express my opinion of that argument using less litotes

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