michael_vassar comments on Psychic Powers - Less Wrong

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

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (93)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: michael_vassar 13 September 2008 01:17:09PM 2 points [-]

It's not on that level, that's the level which I respond to with the forbidden bet, e.g. p = 0, along with all the other stuff that implies strongly that our concepts of probability are simply broken.

Reason is a mistake for less extreme reasons such as "I'm dreaming" or "I'm a Boltzman Brain" or some forms of "my life is not merely a simulation but a psychological experiment".