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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.... 8mo ago received

Sorry, not a fan. Yu received

Yeah, sure, Yud gives his own definition of "mysterious." That's kind of bullshit. It's an English word that already has a meaning.... 8mo ago received

Yeah, sure, Yud give received

It's hard to say because there wasn't a uniform vitalist theory or hypothesis in the late 19th or early 20th century.... 8mo ago received

It's hard to say bec received

I agree with most of this, but I think we should be careful with language on this topic.... 8mo ago received

I agree with most of received

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... 8mo ago received

You seem to be takin received

I agree, but I think this is more a fact about our usual heuristics than a fact about life.... 8mo ago received

I agree, but I think received

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... 8mo ago received

You don't know that. received