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buybuydandavis comments on Experience of typical mind fallacy. - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Elo 27 April 2015 06:39PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 29 April 2015 01:37:03AM 2 points [-]

You don't have to model you, you simply have to execute you.

"If I were in his place, what would I do?"

That's a very easy and natural thing for us to do. It's not a matter of understanding the code, you just have to run it.

Comment author: Creutzer 29 April 2015 05:46:23AM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure this is so easy - people's self-simulations aren't that reliable, are they? Running a sandboxed version of yourself on a brain isn't so trivial.