Comments on: Up above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air http://www.erosblog.com/2009/11/22/up-above-my-head-i-hear-music-in-the-air/ Sex Blogging, Gratuitous Nudity, Kinky Sex, Sundry Sensuality Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:30:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Faustus http://www.erosblog.com/2009/11/22/up-above-my-head-i-hear-music-in-the-air/#comment-114241 Faustus Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:19:51 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4202#comment-114241 @Bleys Let H = "They can never be observed and can never interact with us." If we generalize a point made in Nick Bostrom's paper on infinite ethics (linked to in the post, see esp. pp. 26-7 thereof) and assign a finite nonzero probability to ~H (which seems reasonable), then a significant problem would remain for any ethics that contains an aggregative component. As my ethics does contain an aggregative component, I must respectfully dissent from your "nonissue" judgment. @Bleys

Let H = “They can never be observed and can never interact with us.” If we generalize a point made in Nick Bostrom’s paper on infinite ethics (linked to in the post, see esp. pp. 26-7 thereof) and assign a finite nonzero probability to ~H (which seems reasonable), then a significant problem would remain for any ethics that contains an aggregative component. As my ethics does contain an aggregative component, I must respectfully dissent from your “nonissue” judgment.

]]> By: Dr.Whiplash http://www.erosblog.com/2009/11/22/up-above-my-head-i-hear-music-in-the-air/#comment-114177 Dr.Whiplash Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:09:26 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4202#comment-114177 re: ... it is very hard to write anything that’s really fiction. Because anything that could happen that doesn’t violate (maybe) a few conservation principles could be happening, indeed is happening.... So somewhere in the universe folks, John Lennon is not only still alive, but Sarah Palin is commiting adultery with him... re: … it is very hard to write anything that’s really fiction. Because anything that could happen that doesn’t violate (maybe) a few conservation principles could be happening, indeed is happening….

So somewhere in the universe folks, John Lennon is not only still alive, but Sarah Palin is commiting adultery with him…

]]> By: Bleys http://www.erosblog.com/2009/11/22/up-above-my-head-i-hear-music-in-the-air/#comment-114176 Bleys Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:20:01 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4202#comment-114176 This is really a nonissue. Although such things might exist in our cosmological universe, they are so rare to be outside the mentioned Hubble Limit, the greatest extent of observable universe. They can never be observed and can never interact with us. They are not part of our philosophical universe, and additionally there existence can never be falsified (like much of cosmology). They exist in the same way that Dante's vision of Hell and the punishment of sodomites exists. If that's provocative, good for you. It real in the common sense, only for special definitions of "real." This is really a nonissue. Although such things might exist in our cosmological universe, they are so rare to be outside the mentioned Hubble Limit, the greatest extent of observable universe. They can never be observed and can never interact with us. They are not part of our philosophical universe, and additionally there existence can never be falsified (like much of cosmology). They exist in the same way that Dante’s vision of Hell and the punishment of sodomites exists. If that’s provocative, good for you. It real in the common sense, only for special definitions of “real.”

]]> By: JK http://www.erosblog.com/2009/11/22/up-above-my-head-i-hear-music-in-the-air/#comment-114146 JK Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:21:39 +0000 http://www.erosblog.com/?p=4202#comment-114146 Being bound by physical laws does normally stop (or at least greatly hinder/limit) things like DNA splicing and shrinking. Of course, I haven't read the paper so maybe physical laws are allowed to differ between universes? Being bound by physical laws does normally stop (or at least greatly hinder/limit) things like DNA splicing and shrinking.

Of course, I haven’t read the paper so maybe physical laws are allowed to differ between universes?

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