[extropy-chat] Mangled Worlds

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Robin Hanson wrote:
>>
>>I really have a hard time visualizing any way in which quantum mangling
>>would correspond to experienced "mangling".  I think there may be a
>>runaway metaphor here.
> 
> The question is the speed of the mangling process.  If it were as slow as the
> time it takes a hammer to kill your brain, then your brain would similarly
> compute your death.   If it only took a nanosecond, you wouldn't notice it.

I don't understand.  What exactly happens slowly?

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