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wedrifid comments on Take heed, for it is a trap - Less Wrong Discussion

47 Post author: Zed 14 August 2011 10:23AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 14 August 2011 02:52:36PM 6 points [-]

If you have worked your way through most of the sequences you are likely to agree with the majority of these statements:

I have, but I don't. A couple I agree with and there are some others about which I can at least see how they could be used as a straw man. Then there are some which are just way off.

Then there is:

It is possible to run a person on Conways Game of Life. This would be a person as real as you or me, and wouldn't be able to tell he's in a virtual world because it looks exactly like ours.

That I agree with. And it doesn't qualify as a 'crackpot belief'.

The moral here is that crackpot beliefs are low status

You probably should have opened with that. It's true and basically universally accepted here already.