shminux comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: shminux 03 October 2012 12:10:48AM -1 points [-]

The comment you linked talked about reliably predicting future experiences, and I'll reliably not be experiencing a universe after my death -- so doesn't that mean that the universe won't exist if I shared your definition of "exist"?

I don't see why. A half-decent model would not center on a single person, and the definition given does not say that "future experiences" are those of a specific person. Unless, of course, the model in question strives to describe this person's sensory experience, in which case, yes, you likely stop sensing the universe after you are gone.