Jordan comments on Self-indication assumption is wrong for interesting reasons - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jordan 21 April 2010 01:15:19AM 0 points [-]

Interesting. Thanks for clarifying that.

Regardless of if "I" is a valid index in this case though, certainly "person P used the word 'I' and concluded 'I am in a blue room' " is a valid predicate, even if person P's use of "I" was gibberish.

We can then say that 99% of people, if they concluded that gibberish, would have gone on to conclude the gibberish, "I was, in fact, right to conclude that I was in a blue room."