lavalamp comments on Acausal romance - Less Wrong

26 Post author: lukeprog 25 February 2012 09:13AM

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Comment author: lavalamp 25 February 2012 03:31:43PM 2 points [-]

A "girlfriend" having the ability to specify the author's world with "microphysical detail" clearly has a great amount of computational power available to her, and the author ought to expect some minuscule amount of his measure to awaken in said girlfriend's universe, having just been fabricated via their equivalent of nanotechnology...

Comment author: ciphergoth 25 February 2012 04:29:12PM 1 point [-]

If you have some meaningful way to assign measure to these things then the whole idea falls apart. However that's quite philosophically tricky AFAICT.

Comment author: lavalamp 25 February 2012 04:45:52PM 1 point [-]

If you have some meaningful way to assign measure to these things then the whole idea falls apart.

Sure, but why ruin a perfectly good theory by estimating how much you should anticipate it? :)

Comment author: Anubhav 25 February 2012 04:33:42PM 0 points [-]

The MST3K mantra applies to philosophy to a far greater extent than it applies to works of fiction.

Comment author: lavalamp 25 February 2012 04:48:39PM 1 point [-]

MST3K mantra = "I should relax, it's just a show"?

Tone doesn't translate in comments very well, my comment was intended to be humorous...