Esar 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: thomblake 17 October 2012 01:26:52PM 0 points [-]

Given your responses, my dialectical instincts are telling me you think the answer to the above is 'Yes, they are [inconsistent], and it is false that the universe is made of causal relations'. Is that so?

Yes. I thought I actually made that explicit. At least, it's not "made of" causal relations any more than it's "made of" probability.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 October 2012 01:53:04PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks. I think Eliezer is endorsing the 'causal relations are fundamental' reading, and that this apparently conflicts with the idea that causality is the tool of a limited observer. I think he's likely to see these as reconcilable in some way. That, at any rate, is my prediction.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 October 2012 05:41:17AM 0 points [-]

My prediction is that he never noticed this problem before.

Comment author: chaosmosis 18 October 2012 09:02:59AM 2 points [-]

My prediction is that he will not respond to this line of criticism within the next three days.