chaosmosis comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2012 02:11AM

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Comment author: chaosmosis 12 October 2012 05:57:16PM *  0 points [-]

I mean something different by "out of my range" than "out of my direct sensory experiences". I mean more that they're such that I can never have experiences from which I can deduce the existence of those other objects out of my sensory experiences. I do believe that objects outside of my sensory experience exist, but I don't believe that objects which are so far away I can never interact with them either directly or indirectly exist. If they do exist, they don't do so in any meaningful way.

Comment author: MixedNuts 12 October 2012 08:34:49PM 8 points [-]

Your beloved daughter tells you she wants to leave on a ship to found a colony outside your future cone. I claim that there is a meaningful difference between "She'll keep existing, so it's sad I'll never see her again but I'm proud she's following a cool dream" and "She'll pop out of existence, why does my daughter want to die?".