Will_Sawin comments on We are not living in a simulation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AstroCJ 12 April 2011 08:36:20AM 0 points [-]

DV for being unconstructive.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 13 April 2011 02:42:55AM 0 points [-]

I cannot determine the difference between my heavily downvoted comment and this one:

"http://lesswrong.com/lw/57e/we_are_not_living_in_a_simulation/3wxb"

Mine is more abridged and might be unclear, but that doesn't seem worth 13 karma points. I am confused.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2011 03:17:10AM 4 points [-]

I did not downvote you, but the following looked to me superficially like an insult:

Maybe the qualia of people who ACTUALLY have brains are completely different from yours, a person who has no brain.

People react badly to personal insults. I am not sure that you really intended an insult, which is one reason I didn't downvote.

Comment author: orthonormal 13 April 2011 03:38:35AM 0 points [-]

If you replaced "brains" with "bodies" in your comment, it would make the same point and not look like an insult.

Comment author: dfranke 12 April 2011 02:40:21AM * 0 points [-]

A sufficiently advanced simulation on any substrate would have this property - the simulated qualia would feed back on the simulated world.

Correct, but both still are just simulated. The qualia that are actually occurring are those associated with the simulator substrate, not those associated with the simulated world, and in the context of the simulated world, they would not make sense.

Comment author: AstroCJ 12 April 2011 08:37:18AM 0 points [-]

they would not make sense

Proof?

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