Re: Hiveminds and the Great Filter

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Mar 10 1999 - 11:55:48 MST

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ASpidle@aol.com wrote:
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> 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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