Re: Hiveminds and the Great Filter

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:55:48 -0600

ASpidle@aol.com wrote:
>
> PLEASE EXCUSE MY IGNORANCE, BUT WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN Occam's Razor,
> VMAOR and Schrodinger unitary evolution.

Occam's Razor:
The simplest explanation is always true. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/OCCAMRAZ.html

Yudkowsky's Modified Anthropic Occam's Razor: Occam's Razor with three bugs fixed.
Explained in my Hiveminds post of 10:41 AM.

Schrodinger's equation for unitary evolution: What Nature does when you aren't looking. http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/measurement-in-qm.html

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