Well… in that scenario, you’re pretty much screwed, I’d have to say. … So you might as well not think about the possibility that you’re a brain with choreographed thoughts, because there’s nothing you can do about it... Unless, of course, that’s what they want you to think.
Well… in that scenario, you’re pretty much screwed, I’d have to say. …
So you might as well not think about the possibility that you’re a brain with choreographed thoughts, because there’s nothing you can do about it...
Unless, of course, that’s what they want you to think.
Yep. That’s pretty much the conclusion I drew in a previous post in the sequence. http://lesswrong.com/lw/s0/where_recursive_justification_hits_bottom/4wsn
Assume you can win. Assume that everything necessary for you to win is true. If it isn’t, you’re screwed anyway.
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Yep. That’s pretty much the conclusion I drew in a previous post in the sequence. http://lesswrong.com/lw/s0/where_recursive_justification_hits_bottom/4wsn
Assume you can win. Assume that everything necessary for you to win is true. If it isn’t, you’re screwed anyway.