Armok_GoB comments on Open Thread, November 1 - 7, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 November 2013 08:55:26PM 5 points [-]

There's no brief answer. I've been slowly gravitating towards, but am not yet convinced, by the suspicion that making a computer out of twice as much material causes there to be twice as much person inside. Reason: No exact point where splitting a flat computer in half becomes a separate causal process, similarity to behavior of Born probabilities. But that's not an update to the anthropic trilemma per se.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 06 November 2013 09:42:24PM 8 points [-]

Hmm, conditional on that being the case, do you also believe that the closer to physics the mind is the more person it is in it? Example: action potentials encoded in the position of rods in a babbage engine vs. spread over fragmented ram used by a functional programing language using lazy evaluation in the cloud.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 November 2013 02:49:42AM 4 points [-]

Good question. Damned if I know.