This seems to match up with an argument I made against writing oneself into the future, though I think your formulation is more general. I’m certainly quite interested in hearing more on the subject; I think you’re headed in a good direction.
Thank you much, and I definitely see the similarity with what you posted.
I may indeed be running into the problem of letting “good enough” become the enemy of “at all”. I’ll try to get these articles up in some presentable form soon.
The drafts you’ve been posting lately are interesting to me, and I’d like to see them fleshed out into top-level posts. I would also suggest adding external material and references to give more context to your thought experiments.
Thanks. But that’s one of my difficulties. I read a lot of stuff and so these ideas just “come together”. I don’t even know if there is a source that agrees with this idea. As it stands now, the only sources I believe I’d be able to cite are some of Gary Drescher’s discussion of qualia, and the information-theoretic basics of how compression works, and what makes it more or less effective.
Any suggestions (specific suggestions) for how to find the external references that would be relevant to this topic or the other one’s I’ve posted recently?
By the way: I started keeping a list of planned top-level articles on my Wiki page.
This seems to match up with an argument I made against writing oneself into the future, though I think your formulation is more general. I’m certainly quite interested in hearing more on the subject; I think you’re headed in a good direction.
Thank you much, and I definitely see the similarity with what you posted.
I may indeed be running into the problem of letting “good enough” become the enemy of “at all”. I’ll try to get these articles up in some presentable form soon.
The drafts you’ve been posting lately are interesting to me, and I’d like to see them fleshed out into top-level posts. I would also suggest adding external material and references to give more context to your thought experiments.
Thanks. But that’s one of my difficulties. I read a lot of stuff and so these ideas just “come together”. I don’t even know if there is a source that agrees with this idea. As it stands now, the only sources I believe I’d be able to cite are some of Gary Drescher’s discussion of qualia, and the information-theoretic basics of how compression works, and what makes it more or less effective.
Any suggestions (specific suggestions) for how to find the external references that would be relevant to this topic or the other one’s I’ve posted recently?
By the way: I started keeping a list of planned top-level articles on my Wiki page.