Nick_Tarleton comments on Incremental Progress and the Valley - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2009 04:42PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 05 April 2009 05:00:32PM *  2 points [-]

No, as MBlume said, truth, and utility of truth, supervene on brain states and the things those brain states are about. Holding my belief about the color of the sky fixed, it is true if the sky is blue and false if the sky is green.

Also, truth and happiness are just the values being weighed in this particular case; nobody ever said they're the only things rationalists might care about.