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Oligopsony comments on Open thread, July 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Oligopsony 24 July 2013 09:37:35PM 3 points [-]

Can Blindsight-style Scramblers employ anthropic reasoning?

Comment author: BlindIdiotPoster 25 July 2013 05:33:26PM 2 points [-]

To the extent that anthropic reasoning works at all, it doesn't seem like sentience should be needed.

To use an analogy, it seems to me that this non-sentient site is sort of using anthropic reasoning.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 July 2013 08:06:05PM 4 points [-]

To use an analogy, it seems to me that this non-sentient site is sort of using anthropic reasoning.

So would a rock with the same inscription. Which is to say, it's not the non-sentient site, but the sentient author and reader, who are using reasoning of any sort.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 29 July 2013 04:05:05AM 1 point [-]

Not sure what Scramblers are exactly, but in 2001 I came up with some ideas about how AIs could do something like anthropic reasoning, without being sentient (which eventually incorporated into UDT). Here's the original post I wrote, which was titled no need for anthropic reasoning .