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I KNEW it! I KNEW I was a wizard!
(This fanfic is really about me, right?)
But I digress, you asked for criticism. Here it is: what good is a Talmudic approach to everything if you are an atheist and this is a simulation? The whole point of even living in a simulation is there isn't enough processing power to support a fooming uAI.
If you're an atheist and this is a simulation then what the fuck kinda decision theoretic state do you even occupy brah
(Will edited his comment to change "...kinda epistemic state..." to "...kinda decision theoretic state..." I mention this because I think my response makes epsilon more sense w.r.t. his original comment -mw)
THe unexamined life may not be worth living. It is bad logic to infer from this that the examined life is any different.
Similarly, my not liking the fact that I don't know is hardly evidence that I really do know.
Fair enough. I share that perspective. I guess mostly I'm imagining that it becomes hard to criticize those who do jump off the bridge.
Hard to criticise, perhaps, but worth the effort. The best criticisms are the hard criticisms done well. That we do not get an A for effort alone does not suggest that we get an A without effort.