You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

SoerenMind comments on Updating towards the simulation hypothesis because you think about AI - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: SoerenMind 05 March 2016 10:23PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (21)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: SoerenMind 06 March 2016 05:31:02PM 0 points [-]

"The core of this objection is that not only you are special, but that everybody is special"

Is your point sort of the same thing I'm saying with this? "Everyone has some things in their life that are very exceptional by pure chance. I’m sure there’s some way to deal with this in statistics but I don’t know it."

Comment author: turchin 06 March 2016 06:07:37PM 1 point [-]

Yes, I meant the same. But the fact that we near AI crowd could overweight that bias.