orthonormal comments on Archimedes's Chronophone - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 March 2007 05:43PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 20 June 2011 10:15:54PM 3 points [-]

Another way of putting the idea here: What ideas could qualify as X, where X is to modern common sense as modern common sense is to ancient Greek common sense?

Comment author: khafra 21 June 2011 02:02:09PM 0 points [-]

The idea here might also be: "Which memes M form a group acted on by a torsor of cultural zeitgeists C such that MC1=C2, where C2 is a more desirable cultural zeitgeist than C1?"

I'm honestly not sure which meaning Eliezer originally intended, as both seem valuable focuses for contemplation.