JamesAndrix comments on Applied Picoeconomics - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Yvain 17 June 2009 04:08PM

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 18 June 2009 02:43:06PM 7 points [-]

I have but one Self, a timeless abstract optimization process to which this ape is but a horribly disfigured approximation.

Umm, it seems like huge error to me to think that there is anything but the ape.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 June 2009 02:26:47AM 2 points [-]

I think he's just putting mental software (brain state) above hardware.

Comment author: DanArmak 08 November 2009 10:19:30PM * 3 points [-]

Well, it seems to me like a huge error to think there's anything there but ape software. How is an ape's mind an approximation of something else?

Comment author: alex_zag_al 06 May 2012 01:25:31PM 1 point [-]

well, there's the mind he would self modify into if he could.

Comment author: DanArmak 06 May 2012 01:42:05PM -1 points [-]

So how is his current mind an approximation of that?