Jiro comments on Psychic Powers - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 September 2008 07:28PM

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Comment author: Jiro 10 December 2015 03:16:39PM 1 point [-]

Or perhaps the problem is that you aren't even trying to be understood. "You guys are making worse predictions than you would if you thought like me." Oh, that's interesting; what predictions? "There's no point saying; you don't have the necessary concepts." Oh, what concepts? "There's no point saying; you wouldn't understand."

Leading to the question

Well, you might be right, but how can a conversation like this possibly be any use to anyone?

A little later...

But generally writing more about the purpose of this conversation would only open more issues that I can't fully explain.

It's turtles all the way down