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antigonus comments on Anyone have any questions for David Chalmers? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Solvent 10 March 2012 09:57PM

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Comment author: antigonus 11 March 2012 06:48:21PM 0 points [-]

Do you feel this is a full rebuttal to McDermott's paper? I agree that his generalized argument against "extendible methods" is a straw man; however, he has other points about Chalmers' failure to argue for existing extendible methods being "extendible enough."

Comment author: lukeprog 11 March 2012 07:45:18PM 2 points [-]

No, our paragraph does not rebut everything we disagree with in McDermott's paper. Chalmers' reply in the forthcoming "The Singularity: a reply" is adequate.

Comment author: antigonus 12 March 2012 03:38:18AM 0 points [-]

I suppose I'd like to hear Solvent ask him about those.