JoshuaZ comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 11:21:52PM 9 points [-]

Okay. I'll bet with somewhere around 50% probability that the Great Reductionist Project as I've described it works, with reduction to a single thing counting as success, and requiring magical reality-fluid counting as failure. I'll bet with 95% probability that it's right on the next occasion for anthropics and magical reality-fluid, and with 99+ probability that it's right on the next occasion for things that confuse me less; except that when it comes to e.g. free will, I don't know who I'd accept as a judge that didn't think the issue already settled.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 06 December 2012 05:00:56AM 4 points [-]

I'll bet with 95% probability that it's right on the next occasion for anthropics and magical reality-fluid,

Can you expand on what you mean by this?