Decius comments on [HPMOR][Possible Spoilers] Gedankenexperiment: Time Turner Meta-Informational Relativity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 06 July 2013 02:49:42AM -2 points [-]

Magic clearly does care about information, and it even uses a different definition than Bayesian stats. Luckily, magic doesn't care about physics.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 July 2013 01:39:58AM 1 point [-]

Magic is clearly agent-like. Magic is clearly embedded in reality. Reality is by definition physics.

I don't know if EY has planned to pull something along the lines of Sam Hughes' Ra, but it would highly surprise me if he was about to throw Reductionism out the window.

There is literally no other definition of Information than the one being the moniker in Information Theory. Bayesian statistics heavily overlaps with Information theory. Everything axiomatized differently doesn't lend itself to Agenthood and Statistics. Anything else than Bayesian Stats doesn't lend itself to Agenthood either.

Also, I have spent inordinate amounts of thinking on solid academic grounds and in conversation with several sharp rationalists. Most of these counterpoints I have already considered.