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katydee comments on New vs. Business-as-Usual Future - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: katydee 05 November 2013 02:13AM

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Comment author: katydee 05 November 2013 11:15:02AM *  1 point [-]

I'm saying that the concept you're using for 'meaningful change' is a light shade of grue, looking unusual and gerrymandered to exclude huge past changes while including things like good mood-elevating drugs that are quite natural extrapolations of our expanding biological knowledge.

I understand what you are saying, but I don't understand why you consider those things interesting or relevant. To me, a concept of the human experience that includes computation or material strengths seems unusual and gerrymandered.

At this point it really does seem like we're just playing reference class tennis, though.

Comment author: CarlShulman 05 November 2013 11:36:37AM 1 point [-]

Let's leave it at that then.