Nick_Tarleton comments on Should We Ban Physics? - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2008 08:12AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 21 July 2008 07:16:19PM 0 points [-]

steven: do you mean "(having all of future scientific knowledge [ever]) before intelligence augmentation" or "having [now] (all of future scientific knowledge before intelligence augmentation)"? Also, if (physics|LHC) knowledge is X% of (all|physics) knowledge by bit count, it doesn't follow that it has X% of the value of (all|physics) knowledge; in particular, I would guess that (at least in those worlds where the LHC isn't dangerous) high-energy physics knowledge is significantly less utility-dense than average (the utility of knowledge currently being dominated by its relevance to existential risk).