twanvl comments on The Cognitive Science of Rationality - Less Wrong

88 Post author: lukeprog 12 September 2011 08:48PM

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Comment author: twanvl 12 September 2011 09:54:18AM 0 points [-]

Every program runs on some kind of machine, be it an intel processor, an abstract model of a programming language or the laws of the universe. A program can know its own source code in terms it can execute, i.e. commands that are understood by the interpreter.

But I am not sure what point you are trying to make exactly in the above comment.

Comment author: XiXiDu 12 September 2011 10:02:15AM *  1 point [-]

But I am not sure what point you are trying to make exactly in the above comment.

Vladimir Nesov was criticizing lukeprog's phrase "world out there" claiming that the "map in your head should accurately reflect the world, not just the part of the world that's "out there"". I agree, but if you are accurate then you have to admit that it isn't completely possible to do so.