Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2012 10:12PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 October 2012 06:13:02AM 6 points [-]

It's good practice for seeing how the rules play out; and having a clear mental visualization of how causality works, and what sort of theories are allowed to be meaningful, is actually reasonably important both for anti-nonsense techniques and AI construction. People who will never need any more skill than they currently have in Resist Nonsense or Create Friendly AI can ignore it, I suppose.