Eugine_Nier comments on Our Phyg Is Not Exclusive Enough - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 April 2012 02:28:35AM *  27 points [-]

I've seen enough of the QM sequence and know enough QM to see that Eliezer stopped learning quantum mechanics before getting to density matrices. As a result, the conclusions he draws from QM rely on metaphysical assumptions and seem rather arbitrary if one knows more quantum mechanics. In the comments to this post Scott Aaronson tries to explain this to Eliezer without much success.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 17 April 2012 02:09:28PM 0 points [-]

Could you be specific about which conclusions seem arbitrarily based on which metaphysical assumptions?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 April 2012 03:52:42AM 1 point [-]

I just answered a similar question in another thread here.

Note: please reply there so we can consolidate discussions.