whowhowho comments on Humans in Funny Suits - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 July 2008 11:54PM

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Comment author: HalFinney 31 July 2008 02:58:56AM 0 points [-]

What about Vulcans? They have no emotions at all. Would that count as an escape from the funny suits? (Of course in practice the writers did not do a good job of depicting emotionless characters, but suppose we give them credit for the idea if not the execution.)

Comment author: whowhowho 27 January 2013 08:27:02PM 1 point [-]

Humans without an known feature are easier to imagine that humans with an extra feature.

Comment author: Tynam 08 March 2013 10:14:50AM 3 points [-]

Exactly. Note that the writers intended to give them the extra feature "behaves logically", and failed completely. They managed "behaves like a human, then complains that it's not logical", which is very far from being the same thing.