David_Gerard comments on Boltzmann Brains and Anthropic Reference Classes (Updated) - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: pragmatist 04 June 2012 04:04AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 04 June 2012 01:08:24PM 2 points [-]

So what you mean is that the Boltzmann brain can have no causally-connected beliefs about Obama, not no beliefs-as-everyone-else-uses-the-word about Obama. Fine, but your original statement and your clarification still gratuitously repurpose a word with a conventional meaning in a manner that will be actively misleading to the reader, and doing this is very bad practice.