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Baughn comments on True Optimisation - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: LearnFromObservation 03 September 2013 03:50AM

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Comment author: Baughn 03 September 2013 04:08:04PM 4 points [-]

I don't think (1) is a useful way to think. It's probably true, in some sense, but most of the same arguments against apply as for quantum suicide.

Worse, any random reassembly effects are probably dominated by deliberate ones.