Will_Newsome comments on A Rationalist's Tale - Less Wrong

82 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 01:17AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 September 2011 12:27:41AM *  0 points [-]

Okay. It's like a hypothesis about future revelations, where both Aquinas and I are being shown a series of different agents and we'd agree more than my prediction of LW priors would suggest as to which of those agents were more or less Godlike. It's like we have different labels for what is ultimately the same thing but we don't even know what that thing is yet; but the fact that they're different labels is misleading as to the extent to which we're talking or not talking about what is ultimately the same thing. Still, point taken.