NancyLebovitz comments on MathOverflow as an example for LessWrong - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Academian 27 April 2010 06:30PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 April 2010 07:48:19PM 3 points [-]

I tentatively suggest General Semantics or something like it as a good starting point. It's a bunch of variations on the map not being the territory-- certainly not the whole of rationality, but intuitively plausible and necessary for more advanced work.

Comment author: magfrump 27 April 2010 10:19:26PM 0 points [-]

Semantics does sound like a good starting place. Does anybody know if there are any good semantics sites for beginners?

Comment author: Jack 27 April 2010 10:28:03PM 1 point [-]

Note "General Semantics" is not the same as semantics.

I don't know much about the former but the latter is probably too boring to serve this function.