Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 April 2011 06:03:06AM 4 points [-]

The point is that it's not commonly internalized to the point where someone will correctly use DAG as a synonym for "universe".

Comment author: wedrifid 10 April 2011 08:36:49AM 4 points [-]

The point is that it's not commonly internalized to the point where someone will correctly use DAG as a synonym for "universe".

Synonym? Not just 'capable of being used to perfectly represent', but an actual literal synonym? That's a remarkable claim. I'm not saying I outright don't believe it but it is something I would want to see explained in detail first.

Would reading Pearl (competently) be sufficient to make someone use the term DAG correctly in that sense?

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 07 April 2011 05:41:52PM *  3 points [-]

The point is that it's not commonly internalized to the point where someone will correctly use DAG as a synonym for "universe".

All that I see in the quote is that the DAG is taken to determine what happens to you in some unanalyzed sense. You often hear similar statements saying that the cold equations of physics determine your fate, but the speaker is not necessarily thinking of "equations of physics" as synonymous with "universe".