Deutsch’s The Fabric Of Reality, the only book of his I’ve read, is very well-written and has much that LessWrongers would agree with or find interesting, though I disagree with some of it. The version of Deutsch’s ideas that curi is presenting seems to me utterly wrong-headed. This suggests to me that either Deutsch has suffered some catastrophic failure of reasoning (possibly due to severe brain injury) in the intervening decade-and-a-half, or that curi is misrepresenting his ideas.
Any specific details? Why do you think I’m misrepresenting his ideas? Do you know anything about my relationship with him? Or about how much I’ve studied his ideas, compared to how much you have? Can you point out anything I said which contradicts anything from FoR?
It seems to me you are claiming the authority of having read his book, to know what he thinks. In this regard you are outclassed. And as to rational argument … you don’t give any.
Deutsch’s The Fabric Of Reality, the only book of his I’ve read, is very well-written and has much that LessWrongers would agree with or find interesting, though I disagree with some of it. The version of Deutsch’s ideas that curi is presenting seems to me utterly wrong-headed. This suggests to me that either Deutsch has suffered some catastrophic failure of reasoning (possibly due to severe brain injury) in the intervening decade-and-a-half, or that curi is misrepresenting his ideas.
Any specific details? Why do you think I’m misrepresenting his ideas? Do you know anything about my relationship with him? Or about how much I’ve studied his ideas, compared to how much you have? Can you point out anything I said which contradicts anything from FoR?
It seems to me you are claiming the authority of having read his book, to know what he thinks. In this regard you are outclassed. And as to rational argument … you don’t give any.