pedanterrific comments on Get Curious - Less Wrong

51 Post author: lukeprog 24 February 2012 05:10AM

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Comment author: radical_negative_one 23 February 2012 04:24:18AM 8 points [-]

Last Halloween i dressed as a P-zombie. I explained to anybody who would listen that i had the same physical composition as a conscious human being, but was not in fact conscious. I'm not sure that any of them were convinced that i really was in costume.

Comment author: arundelo 23 February 2012 04:48:36AM *  6 points [-]

For this to be really convincing and spoooky, you could stay in character:

Halloween party attendant: Hi radical_negative_one, what are you dressed as?
confederate: radical_negative_one is a p-zombie, who acts just like a real person but is not actually conscious!
radical_negative_one: That's not true, I am conscious! I have qualia and an inner life and everything!

Comment author: pedanterrific 23 February 2012 05:16:15AM *  5 points [-]

confederate: No, radical_negative_one. You are the demons

And then radical_negative_one was a zombie.