John_Maxwell_IV comments on I Stand by the Sequences - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Grognor 15 May 2012 10:21AM

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Comment author: khafra 15 May 2012 12:17:25PM 2 points [-]

Cryonics is good, and bayes is better than science? An agreement bitmask is a fun perspective; I dunno why you got downvoted.

Comment author: Thomas 15 May 2012 01:56:31PM 1 point [-]

Bayes is better than science, yes. but it's not the cryonics that I like but

I am a utilitarian consequentialist and think that if allow someone to die through inaction, you're just as culpable as a murderer.

As dbaupp explained.

Comment author: khafra 15 May 2012 02:13:02PM 2 points [-]

Whoops. I wasn't counting the sub-bullet as a power-of-two position; gotcha. FWIW, I still think the agreement bitmask is a fun perspective, even though I got it wrong (and there's the whole big-endian/little-endian question).

Comment author: dlthomas 15 May 2012 09:37:09PM 1 point [-]

(and there's the whole big-endian/little-endian question).

That's cleared up by:

I am number 25 school member, since I agree with the last and two more.