Armok_GoB comments on Just another day in utopia - Less Wrong

78 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 25 December 2011 09:37AM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 26 December 2011 08:41:46PM 6 points [-]

I got the impression that was what happened to the fields that WEREN'T left for humans, and that the humans wanted to genuinely be the first to know X rather than just having the experience of discovering it, or believe so falsely.

Comment author: shokwave 28 December 2011 04:49:04PM 0 points [-]

genuinely be the first to know X rather than just having the experience of discovering it, or believe so falsely.

... like you'd be able to tell?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 28 December 2011 04:54:02PM 4 points [-]

They couldn't, that's the entire point of the distinction. There's a large amount of material on LW about how you can have values about stuff other than your own mental states and I'm not going to repeat it all.