Vladimir_Nesov comments on Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism - Less Wrong

86 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 July 2009 02:19AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 01 July 2009 08:44:44PM 0 points [-]

Good epistemology is complete.

On what basis do you say this?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 July 2009 09:01:30PM *  2 points [-]

Even with the gaps, you have a procedure for filling those gaps, or a procedure for constructing that procedure, with intuition at base level. Good epistemology doesn't outsource the meaning of life to a third party.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 July 2009 05:18:00AM 2 points [-]

I think the idea here is that good epistemology gives you betting odds on anything, since you have to bet at some odds. (I don't necessarily claim to implement a good epistemology but an FAI would need one.)