Also, realizing that it all adds up to normality. Learning about quantum physics, or decision theory, or the mind being made of sub-agents, should not make you do crazy things. Your map has changed, but the territory remains the same as it was yesterday. If your sub-agents were able to create a sane individual yesterday, it should be achievable today and tomorrow, too.
Only in the low-technological regime. If the high-end technology regime matters for any reason, it does not add up to normality, but to extremes. A great example of this is Pascal’s mugging, where the low chance of arbitirarily high computational power is considered via wormholes that exist in black holes thanks to the solution to the black hole information paradox that solely uses general relativity and quantum mechanics. Heres the link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/
Now I would agree that if we could halt technological progress, Pascal’s mugging is irrelevant. But it’s unlikely to happen, unless we go extinct. Thus reality does not add up to normality, but gets ever more extreme in the long run.
Or short version, in the long run, extremism about reality, not normality prevails in the end.
Can you explain how the discovery you’ve linked demonstrates “arbitrarily high computational power”. I’ve tracked down some of the papers they’re talking about but haven’t been able to find this claim.
It’s very possible that this is because I’ve missed something obvious in the article.
This seems similar to a post-rat perspective in some ways. Lot of stuff about prioritizing some wellbeing over being consistent.
Also, realizing that it all adds up to normality. Learning about quantum physics, or decision theory, or the mind being made of sub-agents, should not make you do crazy things. Your map has changed, but the territory remains the same as it was yesterday. If your sub-agents were able to create a sane individual yesterday, it should be achievable today and tomorrow, too.
Only in the low-technological regime. If the high-end technology regime matters for any reason, it does not add up to normality, but to extremes. A great example of this is Pascal’s mugging, where the low chance of arbitirarily high computational power is considered via wormholes that exist in black holes thanks to the solution to the black hole information paradox that solely uses general relativity and quantum mechanics. Heres the link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/
Now I would agree that if we could halt technological progress, Pascal’s mugging is irrelevant. But it’s unlikely to happen, unless we go extinct. Thus reality does not add up to normality, but gets ever more extreme in the long run.
Or short version, in the long run, extremism about reality, not normality prevails in the end.
Can you explain how the discovery you’ve linked demonstrates “arbitrarily high computational power”. I’ve tracked down some of the papers they’re talking about but haven’t been able to find this claim.
It’s very possible that this is because I’ve missed something obvious in the article.
I’ll retract the comment for now, as it was admittedly excited speculation, not fact.