Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Outside View's Domain - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 June 2008 03:17AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 June 2008 12:19:08AM 0 points [-]

In accordance with the conjunction rule of probability theory, a deep principle times a surface analogy equals a surface analogy. The principles you've described are deep for analyzing human economies, it's the analogy over to the posthuman side that I have trouble with.

I'll see if I can write a post addressing this specific topic later today, though it's going to be way out of order in the sequence.