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Comment author: albeola 08 September 2012 10:54:14PM 0 points [-]

There's already the option of doing this through alternate accounts.

Comment author: albeola 04 August 2012 08:43:51PM 5 points [-]

It's bs to die.

Comment author: albeola 04 July 2012 08:11:54AM 2 points [-]

The "FAR" keeps pushing me into far mode and then the red color keeps pulling me back into near mode. It's like a Stroop task!

Comment author: albeola 04 July 2012 08:07:08AM 1 point [-]

Apologies — I should have taken reinforcement into account and noted that the new algorithm is probably still a lot better than the previous one.

Comment author: albeola 02 July 2012 06:22:22PM 5 points [-]

Ironically, it appears the new algorithm is frequentist.

Comment author: albeola 12 June 2012 08:38:32PM 12 points [-]

I see it as being like the Chuck Berry scene in Back to the Future.

Comment author: albeola 12 June 2012 08:26:17PM 16 points [-]

Beck is a Mormon, and Mormons generally seem a lot friendlier to transhumanist-type ideas than standard Christians.

Comment author: albeola 06 June 2012 09:30:35PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: albeola 05 June 2012 12:02:10AM 0 points [-]

Sure, I don't see anything here to disagree with.

Comment author: albeola 04 June 2012 10:38:50PM 0 points [-]

The problem of locating "the subjective you" seems to me to have two parts: first, to locate a world, and second, to locate an observer in that world. For the first part, see the grandparent; the second part seems to me to be the same across interpretations.

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