rwallace comments on Taking Occam Seriously - Less Wrong

22 Post author: steven0461 29 May 2009 05:31PM

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Comment author: rwallace 30 May 2009 11:29:21AM 1 point [-]

And cellular automata don't select for intelligence, so it is at least reasonable to conjecture that most observers evolve under physical laws of character similar to ours (and therefore, by the orbit stability argument, in three dimensions of space).

Comment author: PaulUK 30 May 2009 01:54:25PM 1 point [-]

I think Max Tegmark made an argument for that - and I find it more convincing.