PhilGoetz comments on How An Algorithm Feels From Inside - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 22 August 2009 03:02:19AM 3 points [-]

I think the standard analysis is essentially correct. So let's accept that as a premise, and ask: Why do people get into such an argument? What's the underlying psychology?

I think that people historically got into this argument because they didn't know what sound was. It is a philosophical appendix, a vestigial argument that no longer has any interest.