Will_Sawin comments on Uncritical Supercriticality - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2007 04:40PM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 21 May 2011 02:55:43AM 0 points [-]

My understanding is that it's supposed to be a "Bayesian Rationality on leaky hardware" thing. This makes finding evidence for and against very subtle, because you have to come up with some kind of reference class that's objective in a certain hard-to-define way.

But some kind of argumentation is necessary and has some chance of working.