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60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 November 2012 06:11:44AM 4 points [-]

Meditation:

Suppose you needed to assign non-zero probability to any way things could conceivably turn out to be, given humanity's rather young and confused state - enumerate all the hypotheses a superintelligent AI should ever be able to arrive at, based on any sort of strange world it might find by observation of Time-Turners or stranger things. How would you enumerate the hypothesis space of all the coherently-thinkable worlds we could remotely maybe possibly be living in, including worlds with Stable Time Loops and even stranger features?

Comment author: shminux 29 November 2012 11:55:27PM *  1 point [-]

Counter-meditation:

  • come up with an example of a "strange world" which could not "conceivably turn out to" include this one

  • construct a world that does include both

  • repeat