Kip_Werking comments on The Ultimate Source - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 June 2008 09:01AM

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Comment author: Kip_Werking 15 June 2008 10:13:27PM 4 points [-]

Eliezer,

The subtle ambiguity here is between two meanings of "is fixed":

1. going from a state of being unfixed to a state of being fixed 2. being in a state of being fixed

I think you were are interpreting me to mean 1. I only meant 2, and that's all that I need. That the future is fixed2, before I am born, is what disturbs people, regardless of when the moment of fixing1 happens (if any).

KTW