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Manfred comments on Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia - Less Wrong Discussion

99 Post author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:32AM

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Comment author: Filipe 15 September 2012 10:45:04AM *  8 points [-]

What about Drescher's Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics? Eliezer said it's "pratically Less Wrong in book form."

Comment author: Manfred 15 September 2012 01:04:53PM 1 point [-]

Not a source, but definitely a parallel.

We have talked about Newcomb's problem with transparent boxes on here a few times - I'm pretty sure that's originally from Good and Real.