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Comment author: Incorrect 07 November 2011 03:08:20AM 0 points [-]

I wasn't sure if he meant you will be immobilized if you want to stick to your commitment or be immobilized out of some sort of neurosis.

Comment author: Dorikka 07 November 2011 03:14:03AM 0 points [-]

I parsed it as 'you won't be able to update.'

Comment author: Incorrect 07 November 2011 03:18:06AM *  0 points [-]

You interpreted "immobilize" as "inability to perform a Bayesian update"? I think that is unlikely given that he says "you will be incapable of going somewhere without your cache of notes" which seems to clearly imply a much more (though not completely) literal, physical meaning of immobilization.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 November 2011 03:49:15AM 1 point [-]

There's also the bit that says

There is also a "structural integrity'' to your old thoughts that will resist change. You may actively not-think certain things, because it would demand a lot of note keeping work.

Comment author: Incorrect 07 November 2011 04:04:39AM 1 point [-]

If you'll excuse the rhetoric: Wow... I don't even know what to say.

Comment author: Dorikka 07 November 2011 03:29:44AM 0 points [-]

Maybe I just interpreted that as the worst part of it, and somewhat of a metaphor for having significant barriers to reorganizing or modifying your brain's contents.

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