Dmytry comments on On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power. - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Dmytry 11 January 2012 05:07PM

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Comment author: shminux 17 January 2012 12:51:32AM *  1 point [-]

show the flaming text in front of your eyes [...] if it can demonstrate this, then it is straightforwardly a God

Or a capable trickster. Which one do you think is more likely?

Comment author: Dmytry 17 January 2012 09:44:30AM 0 points [-]

Say, I were to make a flaming text appear right in the middle of your visual field, moving with your head as you turn it around, like right as you're reading this sentence.

Most likely explanation would be that you are hallucinating, at which point you can just as well give up and lie still for some hours hoping for image to go away.