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Kaj_Sotala comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RaelwayScot 06 January 2016 11:17:19AM 5 points [-]

Why does E. Yudkowsky voice such strong priors e.g. wrt. the laws of physics (many worlds interpretation), when much weaker priors seem sufficient for most of his beliefs (e.g. weak computationalism/computational monism) and wouldn't make him so vulnerable? (With vulnerable I mean that his work often gets ripped apart as cultish pseudoscience.)

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 January 2016 01:20:00PM *  6 points [-]

My model of him has him having an attitude of "if I think that there's a reason to be highly confident of X, then I'm not going to hide what's true just for the sake of playing social games".