Re: Hanson: Is our universe about to be mangled?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 19:37:06 MST


George Dvorsky wrote:
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
>> This is a sensationalistic misinterpretation of Hanson's argument.
>>
>> Check the original. http://hanson.gmu.edu/mangledworlds.html
>
> Heh, I commented on Hanson's thesis and the NewSci article on my blog,
> and lo and behold, Mr. Hanson felt need to comment:
>
> http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/02/many-mangled-worlds.html#114114801569023278
>
> Cheers,
> George

In that case, I think Hanson may be complicit in sensationalizing his
own argument, but I cannot be sure of this, since I haven't followed the
math as math.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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