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Not being careful in making descriptive statements:
Fundamental mental entities:
Unsubstantiated claims:
I don't understand how these descriptive statements could be made more careful. In the first statement, I go on to explain exactly what I mean as well as I can. Do you not think my description refers to a function your brain performs? In the second statement, you are objecting to my use of "we" instead of giving a list of people? (e.g., me, Yudkowsky, Solomonoff...)
As long as I don't understand what consciousness is, it seems this problem is unavoidable. Should we not talk about anthropics until we solve the problem of consciousness? That seems like a bad option, since we may well have to make choices about simulations long before then.
My claim is better substantiated than the claim that Solomonoff induction is a reasonable thing to do for a human scientist. Admittedly that may not be the case, but its pretty well accepted here and has been argued at great length by many other thinkers (e.g., Solomonoff).