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Lumifer comments on Open Thread May 23 - May 29, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 26 May 2016 03:06:17PM 0 points [-]

To add more context, what if the perceived red object is a trolley running down the railway track...

What if the Chinese room is operated by trolleys running on tracks and the signaling system works by putting some (smaller) number of fat people and some (greater) number of slim people onto appropriate tracks? X-0

...and then one day you find a giraffe on tracks.