Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ad Hominem - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 November 2008 09:47PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 November 2008 08:52:47AM 0 points [-]

Doug, AFAICT, this just says that you can't actually implement a Laplacian Oracle that by means of reliable abstract reasoning returns in general the correct answer to any predictive physical question, because you can just ask it "Predict whether I will raise my left hand or right hand" and then do the opposite.