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wedrifid comments on Problems of the Deutsch-Wallace version of Many Worlds - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 December 2011 04:18:07AM 0 points [-]

In my opinion, both the insistence on MWI and the heavily kool-aidish emphasis on evo-psych are examples of such failures in the sequences.

This gives me a (trivial) update in the direction of MWI! (ie. A higher correlation between critics of Eliezer's rather uncontroversial evo-psych position with critics of his MW position makes the MW position slightly more plausible.)

Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 17 December 2011 09:16:40AM 1 point [-]

Is that not a species of the "Hitler was a vegetarian" argument?

Comment author: wedrifid 17 December 2011 09:46:49AM *  0 points [-]

Is that not a species of the "Hitler was a vegetarian" argument?

No. If it was then the species "Hitler was a vegetarian" would be would be valid - which would thereby make the Hitler reference a mere Godwin violation.

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