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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on The Waker - new mode of existence - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Jan_Rzymkowski 12 July 2015 02:00PM

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 13 July 2015 02:51:07AM 2 points [-]

This isn't an idea so terrible in my opinion to justify such a high downvoting percentage, but perhaps you could improve the presentation.

I think the idea would be more plausible if it was tied to some compelling rationale - what is the motivation for posthumans to expand computation on human dreams? That computation has opportunity cost in other experiences and lives that could be lived.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 13 July 2015 06:45:24AM 1 point [-]

Yeah. I think the down-voting results less from being inapropriate or off-topic but rather from being a ver unusual mixture. I think it has a too high inferential gap to 'normal' posts. One is directly thrown in and that can cause refusal.