Sly

• SlyApr 6, 2012, 5:38 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: TheOtherDave’s comment on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  Yes, it was rhetorical.

  I see now, I was operating on the fact about the world level.

• SlyApr 6, 2012, 4:28 AM

  −2 points

  in reply to: TheOtherDave’s comment on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  The point I was trying to convey was that there is a huge difference between if I die vs a copy elsewhere of me dying.

  Hence me using the programming metaphor. If I am an instance, it matters a hell of a lot if it is this particular instance that gets scrapped vs some other instance of Sly.

  My argument is that ageing is more like modifying the variables, whereas the Big Universe copy of sly is a separate instance.

  Therefore it makes a lot of sense why I do not consider the copy of Sly to be me. I do not equate the two as other people here really want too. I also reject the idea that ageing identity loss is comparable to death identity loss, this seems to be completely wishful thinking.

• SlyApr 6, 2012, 4:20 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  Yea, that helped.

• SlyApr 6, 2012, 1:52 AM

  4 points

  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  I see what you are saying now. Thanks for clarifying.

• SlyApr 6, 2012, 1:51 AM

  −2 points

  in reply to: TheOtherDave’s comment on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  Sure. I would argue that me in 20 years is the same instance as the current Sly, but older, while the parallel universe Slys are just other instances of the Sly Class.

  Hence why I can easily differentiate between the two.

• SlyApr 6, 2012, 1:00 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: TheOtherDave’s comment on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  The same way an instance of a class is still that instance even if I change some of it’s private variables.

  Now, the other instances of the same class are still quite different, and are not the same, even though they are similar.

• SlyApr 6, 2012, 12:36 AM

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  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  The answer is that I just had a 50% chance of dying. Assholes.

  This should be pretty obvious considering the pile of corpses the quantum murderers are leaving behind as they repeat their game.

• SlyApr 5, 2012, 11:45 PM

  6 points

  on: Cry­on­ics with­out freez­ers: re­s­ur­rec­tion pos­si­bil­ities in a Big World

  I still have yet to see anyone adequately address how I am supposed to relate in any way to the magical copy of me a universe away.

  If they have a shitty day, I feel nothing. If they have a good day, I feel nothing. If they die, big whoop. When I die, I will not be magically waking up in their body and vice versa. I will be dead.

• SlyApr 1, 2012, 7:08 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: Multiheaded’s comment on: Open Thread, April 1-15, 2012

  What are you referring too? “That’s” seems to refer to something LW did, but I do not notice anything.

• SlyApr 1, 2012, 7:06 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Open Thread, April 1-15, 2012

  Luck, networking/​who you know, and time are all very, very important.

• SlyMar 10, 2012, 6:09 PM

  7 points

  in reply to: HonoreDB’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

  How about Three Worlds Collide?

• SlyFeb 11, 2012, 8:36 PM

  14 points

  in reply to: CaveJohnson’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Fe­bru­ary 2012

  I don’t think everyone here would agree that democracy is a good thing.

• SlyFeb 11, 2012, 10:46 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Sly’s comment on: AI Box Role Plays

  Update: Only one person accepted my challenge, but they never met up at the appointed time; even after I stayed up on Skype till 2 AM repeatedly for about two weeks waiting for them.

• SlyJan 28, 2012, 7:47 PM

  5 points

  on: HPMOR: What could’ve been done bet­ter?

  I am going to be terribly unoriginal and say that the whole Hermione bullying plot was boring to read, and should have been removed.

• SlyJan 27, 2012, 6:16 PM

  8 points

  in reply to: moridinamael’s comment on: AI Box Log

  The Gatekeeper party may resist the AI party’s arguments by any means chosen—logic, illogic, simple refusal to be convinced, even dropping out of character—as long as the Gatekeeper party does not actually stop talking to the AI party before the minimum time expires.

  Those rules make it pretty clear that he did not break the spirit of the game. If you want to drop that, then let’s get rid of silliness like predicting lottery numbers.

  In their example conversation the box was an adequate safety measure. The AI did not get released.

• SlyJan 27, 2012, 6:44 AM

  22 points

  on: AI Box Log

  Why was the victory unclear? The Gatekeeper clearly won. And that was with the absurdity of predicting lottery numbers.

• SlyJan 27, 2012, 3:09 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: MileyCyrus’s comment on: AI Box Role Plays

  It is unfortunate that you think a winning strategy is not being a good sport, when it is specifically OKed in the passage I quoted.

  I will play exactly as I would were I an actual gatekeeper. If I were a real gatekeeper, I would win.

• SlyJan 26, 2012, 11:32 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: MileyCyrus’s comment on: AI Box Role Plays

  Reading those rules I see that:

  The Gatekeeper party may resist the AI party’s arguments by any means chosen—logic, illogic, simple refusal to be convinced, even dropping out of character—as long as the Gatekeeper party does not actually stop talking to the AI party before the minimum time expires.

  So yeah.

• SlyJan 26, 2012, 6:07 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: MileyCyrus’s comment on: AI Box Role Plays

  How would it do that inside the box? You are vastly overestimating it’s abilities by orders of magnitude.

  No wonder we have such differing opinions.

• SlyJan 26, 2012, 8:09 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: MileyCyrus’s comment on: AI Box Role Plays

  What if I use a gatekeeper who thinks he is just in an elaborate role-play, and I tell him to win. You assume an awful lot about the gatekeepers.