Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on A Proposed Adjustment to the Astronomical Waste Argument - LessWrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2013 07:18:47PM 8 points [-]

My difficulty imagining a genuinely realistic mechanism of impossibility is such that I want to see the details of how it doesn't happen before I update. I could make up dumb stories but they would be the wrong explanation if it actually happened, because I don't think those dumb stories are actually plausible.