Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 07 April 2009 04:50:58PM 1 point [-]

I will eventually have as much evidence as you have that you are conscious.

For as long as you are studying me, yes. And then afterwards I get deleted and what you see of me is again just a few lines in an algorithm using up a couple of CPU cycles every hour.

Heh, true. But I confront the same possibility with regards to my observation of my own consciousness.