Kaj_Sotala comments on A Less Wrong singularity article? - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 17 November 2009 02:15PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 18 November 2009 07:53:43PM 1 point [-]

It is not that there is no ultimate truth, but rather, that there is no closet which might contain or fail to contain "ultimate truth", it's just the word "truth" with the sonorous-sounding adjective "ultimate" tacked on in front. Truth is all there is or coherently could be.

So what about the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny?

...sorry, couldn't resist.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 November 2009 08:08:24PM 1 point [-]

But there is a truth-condition for whether a showdown is "ultimate" or not.