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

78 Post author: Yvain 22 November 2013 09:26AM

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Comment author: hyporational 27 November 2013 12:25:00PM 0 points [-]

I'd like to keep the word supernatural in my (inner?) vocabulary, but "unconstrained by physics" makes absolutely no sense to me, so I tried to choose a definition that doesn't make my brain hurt. If we inspect the roots of the word, you can see it roughly means "above nature", nature here being the observable universe whether it's a simulation or not. I find this definition suits the situation pretty well.

Comment author: Kurros 27 November 2013 10:49:11PM 1 point [-]

I can't disagree with that :p. I will concede that the survey question needs some refinement.