billswift comments on "Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say No!", Nick Agar - Less Wrong

4 Post author: gwern 02 December 2011 09:42PM

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Comment author: billswift 04 December 2011 12:53:08AM *  0 points [-]

It occurred to me when I was reading the original post, but I was inspired to post it here mostly as a me-too to your line:

We can't even do formal mathematics without significant and ineradicable risk in the final proof

That is, reinforcing that everything has some "ineradicable risk".