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HoverHell comments on "Personal Identity and Uploading", by Mark Walker - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: gwern 07 January 2012 07:55PM

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Comment author: HoverHell 09 January 2012 06:54:48AM 0 points [-]

Uh… Is is possible to explain “why” without explaining “what”?

But anyway, the problem of explaining is similar to trying to write an OS using only regexes (or regular languages in general): there's no solution as long as that prerequisite about order of the allowed language is there. Or practically close to such situation, at least.