bryjnar comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Yvain 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: bryjnar 03 November 2011 11:13:07AM 3 points [-]

It's not so much the "genuinely omnipotent" bit that I have philosophical problems with as the idea of "ontologically basic mental entities". I don't think this is the place to go into it fully, but suffice it to say that nowadays I'm not sure if that even makes sense. If I don't think a situation makes sense, how can I assign it a probability?

Of course, I could weigh that against the probability that I'm mistaken, but I'm not sure whether we're meant to take that kind of thing into account.

Comment author: dlthomas 03 November 2011 03:37:34PM 4 points [-]

My understanding is that we're absolutely supposed to take that sort of thing into account.

Comment author: bryjnar 04 November 2011 11:53:06PM 0 points [-]

Yeah I think you're right; I hereby retract my worries!