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TheAncientGeek comments on I need a protocol for dangerous or disconcerting ideas. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 July 2015 11:52:36AM *  0 points [-]

You started with a set of values and preferences and an ontology. When you encountered dust theory, you discovered that one of the definitions used to define your values - the notion of personal identity - wasn't fully coherent.

Dust theory doesn't show anything to be incoherent, because it's only a theory. One cam take its unwelcome conclusions to be a reductio ad absurdum of its premises.

Comment author: Dentin 13 July 2015 01:58:25PM 4 points [-]

It's not a theory, it's not even a hypothesis - it's an idea. The bar for theory and hypothesis is far above what 'dust theory' can manage at this point.

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