Chronophone Motivations - LessWrong

Followup to: Archimedes's Chronophone. • Suppose you could send messages back in time to Archimedes of Syracuse, using a chronophone which - to avoid transmitting anachronistic information - transmi…

x Chronophone Motivations — LessWrong Hamming Questions Personal Blog 64 Chronophone Motivations by Eliezer Yudkowsky 24th Mar 2007 4 min read 17 64 Followup to: Archimedes's Chronophone . Suppose you could send messages back in time to Archimedes of Syracuse, using a chronophone which - to avoid transmitting anachronistic information - transmits the results of executing cognitive strategies, rather than words. If you say "Women should have the vote", it comes out as "Install a tyrant of great personal virtue", because you repeated what your culture considers a wise form of political arrangeme

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