gjm comments on Comments for "Rationality" - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 March 2009 10:34PM

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Comment author: gjm 17 March 2009 02:30:56AM 2 points [-]

You seemed to be disagreeing with me, but declined to say just what your disagreement was. So I had to guess, and I tried to respond to the criticism I thought you were making. Now it appears that we are in agreement. Fair enough; what then was your point?

(My point, in case it wasn't obvious, was that I think Eliezer erred when he wrote that the only legitimate use of definitions is to ease communication; I think they are sometimes helpful in private thought too.)

Comment author: Annoyance 17 March 2009 07:36:01PM 0 points [-]

"I think they are sometimes helpful in private thought too."

Here I think you're erring: definitions are absolutely necessary in conscious thought. Without them, you don't have conscious processing.