I have conferred with a few of my most trusted rationalist friends, It seems we agree that you conceive of a “magic” being separate from “physics” in a way which we have collectively edited you of our cognition.
I really must emplore you to read the sequence Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners. It argues strongly for why Mathematics and Physics/Causality is the only way of talking “meaningfully” about the universe.
Also, you are veering dangerously close to my trolling pattern matching algorithm’s threshold.
Given the object-level information I have about the universe of HPMOR, I assign a significant probability to the possibility that the universe there does not follow Mathematics as we can conceive of in this universe. With the meta-level knowledge I have, I an certain that it will not be confirmed to be the case, and that magic will have the properties needed for the plot without having any epicycles which are not foreshadowed far enough in advance. It is currently too late to foreshadow anything new.
Also, you are veering dangerously close to my trolling pattern matching algorithm’s threshold.
Your algorithm has the risk of false positives and false negatives; you can reduce the false results by improving the algorithm, or you can shift the threshold to reduce one and increase the other.
I have conferred with a few of my most trusted rationalist friends, It seems we agree that you conceive of a “magic” being separate from “physics” in a way which we have collectively edited you of our cognition.
I really must emplore you to read the sequence Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners. It argues strongly for why Mathematics and Physics/Causality is the only way of talking “meaningfully” about the universe.
Also, you are veering dangerously close to my trolling pattern matching algorithm’s threshold.
Given the object-level information I have about the universe of HPMOR, I assign a significant probability to the possibility that the universe there does not follow Mathematics as we can conceive of in this universe. With the meta-level knowledge I have, I an certain that it will not be confirmed to be the case, and that magic will have the properties needed for the plot without having any epicycles which are not foreshadowed far enough in advance. It is currently too late to foreshadow anything new.
Your algorithm has the risk of false positives and false negatives; you can reduce the false results by improving the algorithm, or you can shift the threshold to reduce one and increase the other.