orthonormal comments on Scaling Evidence and Faith - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 30 December 2009 02:51:52AM *  1 point [-]

I hope you merely mean, "there is a point in mind-space that adopts this set", and not that there exists or has existed a person who does. Just based on the number of possible axioms, that claim is trivially false; and the vast majority of axioms would be particularly unlikely to be chosen by human beings in particular.

Comment author: Thomas 30 December 2009 06:23:59AM 0 points [-]

Of course. I thought that was obvious.

The majority of those sets of axioms are not occupied by any human mind. Of course.

I should say "human possible" instead of "possible".