I guess you could maybe get away with that reply if the correct decision theoretic generalization of anthropic selection (in a sufficiently big universe, ain’t gotta be quantum) isn’t technically ontologically fundamental… but alas, I’d bet the infinitely reflective meta-contrarian stack returns ‘true’ for Luck. (Just not Luck for people who aren’t you (given some actually coherent definition of ‘you’, which of course might not look much like it does at the moment).) It’s almost as if the Universe likes to laugh at prodigies of refutation, or something. (Maybe we should reify Irony, too?)
Edited to add: This Wiki article) on the fallacious side of reification is mildly informative. LW talks a lot about map-territory confusion but it seems as if reification is a particularly dangerous special case. Also, kinda relatedly, I’ve started to notice how common is synecdoche, which is sort of worrying since in practice synecdoche seems to mostly be an accidental confusion of meta levels...
I guess you could maybe get away with that reply if the correct decision theoretic generalization of anthropic selection (in a sufficiently big universe, ain’t gotta be quantum) isn’t technically ontologically fundamental… but alas, I’d bet the infinitely reflective meta-contrarian stack returns ‘true’ for Luck. (Just not Luck for people who aren’t you (given some actually coherent definition of ‘you’, which of course might not look much like it does at the moment).) It’s almost as if the Universe likes to laugh at prodigies of refutation, or something. (Maybe we should reify Irony, too?)
Edited to add: This Wiki article) on the fallacious side of reification is mildly informative. LW talks a lot about map-territory confusion but it seems as if reification is a particularly dangerous special case. Also, kinda relatedly, I’ve started to notice how common is synecdoche, which is sort of worrying since in practice synecdoche seems to mostly be an accidental confusion of meta levels...
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