Jayson_Virissimo comments on 2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 23 November 2013 01:39:39AM *  4 points [-]

I interpret a (a steel-manned) supernatural (above or outside of nature) event to be something like the Simulator changing program variables from outside the simulation in contradiction with its normal rules of operation. But, my priors said that there are more simulations without interference from the Simulator (besides "natural laws", named constants in the source code, initial condition values passed in before run-time, etc...) than with interference, so I assigned a higher probability to the God Hypothesis than to supernatural events having occurred (in our world).

Although, having written this down, I'm not sure my priors made as much sense as it felt like they did beforehand.