From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 11:48:15 MDT
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
I'm going to cut the discussion and cut to the chase...
> I reply that the class of systems humanly chunkable into human-sized
> sub-regularities arranged in a holonic structure of humanly understandable
> combinatorial complexity, is a tiny subset of the set of possible systems
> with chunkable regularity, holonic structure, and compressible
> combinatorial complexity.
Jesus H. fuckin Christ! (Pardon my language here). I read this over
three times before I think I groked it. And while I generally agree
the question I have to ask is "are there more than a dozen people
on the planet who can understand this statement?"
We complain about how the extropian list is a focus of narrow
minded debates -- and then we compliment this with discussions
whose roots are so deep that we would all be digging for days
to uncover them.
Now I lay me down to sleep. Pray the lord my soul to keep.
R.
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