lukeprog comments on Audio from Eliezer's talk at the Oxford Transhumanists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 30 March 2011 05:50:08AM 5 points [-]

At 5:56, Eliezer says the mind projection fallacy is known to philosophy students as "humane projectivism." I've never heard of that... perhaps "Humean projectivism" was intended? Hume's famous quote on this is:

Tis a common observation, that the mind has a great propensity to spread itself on external objects, and to conjoin with them any internal impressions, which they occasion, and which always make their appearance at the same time that these objects discover themselves to the senses.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2011 10:54:25PM 2 points [-]

Humean, yep.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 March 2011 10:54:46AM 2 points [-]

Humean.