Comment by uploada on Were atoms real? · 2010-12-13T11:20:39.202Z · LW · GW

Besides the predictive power as a way to measure "realness", I would add persistence. A car in my dream is less real than a car before me when I cross a street in my daily life, in the sense that it persists more in my mind.

Comment by uploada on Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality · 2010-11-19T08:38:30.212Z · LW · GW

Awesome post. I think that lesswrong asks good questions to make you more rational. But in a complicated fashion. Although I am a newcomer, I think that there is a waste of time focusing on the rhetoric instead of practical problems. I have the feeling that lesswrong will be giving me some insights about the kinds of "algorithms" that my mind will need but, indeed I need to apply those "algorithms" in the real space in order to fully implement them...