in thread "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions by Eliezer Yudkowsky": Sorry, not a fan. Yud's essay is just as mystery-bound and incoherent as what it's fighting. ... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) 44 Sorry, not a fan. Yu (view hidden) 44 Yeah, sure, Yud gives his own definition of "mysterious." That's kind of bullshit. It's an English word that already has a meaning. ... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) 22 Yeah, sure, Yud give (view hidden) 22 It's hard to say because there wasn't a uniform vitalist theory or hypothesis in the late 19th or early 20th century. ... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) 44 It's hard to say bec (view hidden) 44 I agree with most of this, but I think we should be careful with language on this topic. ... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) 44 I agree with most of (view hidden) 44 You seem to be taking "physicalism" as roughly synonymous with "materialism." I explicitly don't do that. When I speak of the "physical," I'm thinking of Aristotle's phusis, or nature. It's just how things are, which I don't presume to understand in advanc... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 22 You seem to be takin (view hidden) 22 I agree, but I think this is more a fact about our usual heuristics than a fact about life. ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 66 I agree, but I think (view hidden) 66 You don't know that. It could be that Gnon did need to create consciousness. It could be that not only do p-zombies not exist, but they could not exist. It could be that whenever you have a being that does all the things humans do, down to a fine-grained l... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 77 You don't know that. (view hidden) 77