Hypothetical Independent Co-inventors, we’re pretty sure you exist. Compat wouldn’t be a very good acausal pact if you didn’t. Show yourselves.
I’m one—but while the ideas have enough plausibility to be interesting, they necessarily lack the direct scientific evidence I’d need to feel comfortable taking them seriously. I was religious for too long, and I think my hardware was hopelessly corrupted by that experience. I need direct scientific evidence as an anchor to reality. So now I try to be extra-cautious about avoiding faith of any kind lest I be trapped again in a mental tarpit.
Understandable. You could definitely be right about that. Compat is a theory that boosts its own probability just for being thought about. Such theories are dangerous for rationalists with histories of spiritualism.
Which, unfortunately for me, is a category that includes a large number of rationalists.
Right now it’s dangling by a few multiverse immortality precepts and some very extreme measure differentials and I’m not sure it’s going to hold together in the end. You’ll probably hear about it if it does. I might make a post even if it doesn’t(could make an interesting parable about the tenacity of religion even under rationalism). Either way, when that happens, I’ll update this thread. But don’t check it too often. This can be practice for you in ignoring your triggers.
I’m one—but while the ideas have enough plausibility to be interesting, they necessarily lack the direct scientific evidence I’d need to feel comfortable taking them seriously. I was religious for too long, and I think my hardware was hopelessly corrupted by that experience. I need direct scientific evidence as an anchor to reality. So now I try to be extra-cautious about avoiding faith of any kind lest I be trapped again in a mental tarpit.
Understandable. You could definitely be right about that. Compat is a theory that boosts its own probability just for being thought about. Such theories are dangerous for rationalists with histories of spiritualism.
Which, unfortunately for me, is a category that includes a large number of rationalists.
Right now it’s dangling by a few multiverse immortality precepts and some very extreme measure differentials and I’m not sure it’s going to hold together in the end. You’ll probably hear about it if it does. I might make a post even if it doesn’t(could make an interesting parable about the tenacity of religion even under rationalism). Either way, when that happens, I’ll update this thread. But don’t check it too often. This can be practice for you in ignoring your triggers.