Eric5 comments on The Ritual - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 October 2008 11:52PM

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Comment author: Eric5 13 October 2008 12:49:45PM 3 points [-]

Psy-Kosh, I think the point is that you should flush your cache and reload everything from scratch - if the thought that you calculated before is still valid, you'll produce it again, and can then take it in a different direction.

TGGP, I don't see this as sci-fi necessarily... but I have to say, I really enjoy the beisutsukai series of posts. They are perhaps some of my favorite to read, even if they're not necessarily as useful as a direct statement of the principle behind them. (Then again... maybe they're more useful because they're easier to relate to. Hmm.)