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homunq comments on Does quantum mechanics make simulations negligible? - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: homunq 13 August 2011 01:53AM

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Comment author: homunq 13 August 2011 05:50:37PM *  0 points [-]

I believe that even if this argument is fundamentally irresolvable on empirical grounds, that does not preclude an effective resolution on logical grounds. So I think that throwing up your hands and making it just an arbitrary matter of priors — if that was your intention — is premature.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2011 08:46:14PM 0 points [-]

Well, I have nothing more to say at the moment.