[ExI] Bad Epistemology?

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Technotranscendence wrote:
> 
> I'm sure happy to hear that after many centuries of debate -- going back
> to the Ancients -- that Barbour has finally and definitively settled the
> issue.  :)  No one here, I trust, would accuse him of being a
> sophomaniac...

On the one hand, I know the theory (timeless physics) lacks definitive 
experimental proof, as yet.

On the other hand, an irrevocable ratchet has ticked forward in my 
brain; I am no longer capable of conceiving what a "timeful" universe 
would be like.

It is not so much that Barbour convinced me of his viewpoint but that 
he rendered me incapable of seeing the universe in any other way.

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