orthonormal comments on To Speak Veripoop - Less Wrong

-18 Post author: thre3e 18 July 2011 02:50AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 18 July 2011 05:50:35AM 1 point [-]

Your post isn't clear enough for me to find our points of disagreement, which probably accounts for most of its downvotes.

Have you read the Map and Territory sequence yet?

Comment author: thre3e 18 July 2011 03:59:41PM *  -2 points [-]

I am amazed. Are you telling me that you do not clearly see that I propose the coining of a new word, and why I so propose, and that the piece was written in good humor?

Comment author: orthonormal 18 July 2011 05:05:55PM 3 points [-]

I can't tell whether your epistemology is joking or serious, though; it seems like you're quite committed to a state of confessed ignorance about many things (which is preferable to one of hubristic certainty, but isn't the best you can do with your knowledge).