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orthonormal comments on A case study in fooling oneself - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 15 December 2011 05:25AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 15 December 2011 06:55:57PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer's objection is more about his distaste for infinite sets than about any mysterious properties of consciousness; he feels that the universe should be a large but finite thing rather than a continuum, and thus the granularity of that finite thing becomes an issue.