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TheAncientGeek comments on The Consequences of Dust Theory. - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: Eitan_Zohar 09 July 2015 03:53PM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 16 July 2015 12:56:34PM 0 points [-]

You claim to be distressed by the consequences. Why be distressed by the consequences of something you have no good reason to believe.

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 16 July 2015 06:03:39PM *  0 points [-]

I do. Unification (Bostrom's term) seems to be almost irrefutable, and therefore Dust Theory is at least partly right.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 16 July 2015 10:09:48PM 0 points [-]

Bostrom himself appears to reject Unification.

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 17 July 2015 12:47:28AM -1 points [-]

His arguments suck.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 21 July 2015 08:53:34AM 0 points [-]

You need to say why .

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 21 July 2015 09:25:31AM 0 points [-]

Measure. His arguments do not account for it.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 21 July 2015 12:30:46PM *  0 points [-]

Measure can lead to just about any conclusion, depending on how you define it.

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