pjeby comments on Beginning at the Beginning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 12 March 2009 03:11:07AM 0 points [-]

At least, if you value money more than whatever (emotional) value you place on sounding logically consistent. ;-)

However, since any formal system can contain undecidable propositions, and since there is no reason to suppose that human brains (or the universe!) are NOT equivalent to a formal system, then there isn't any way to guarantee a mapping from "procedure" to "truth", anyway!

So I prefer to treat logical consistency as a useful tool for winning, rather than treating winning as a useful tool for testing logical consistency.