Lambda comments on Thou Art Godshatter - Less Wrong

68 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 November 2007 07:38PM

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 24 November 2010 08:14:28AM 12 points [-]

Wow, too big an inferential distance Phil. No idea what you are tallking about here "what we think of today as individuality, will correspond to information in the future."

Would you mind giving a few more details? Curiosity striking...

Comment author: Lambda 24 March 2012 03:16:50AM 1 point [-]

Would you mind giving a few more details? Curiosity striking...

I've been lurking for a while, and this is my first post, but:

Would you mind giving far fewer details? Consciously imposed conjunction-aversion striking...

FTFY. Instead of asking for a single detailed story, we should ask for many simple alternative stories, no?

Obviously, this doesn't countermand your complaint about inferential distance, which I totally agree with.