incariol comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: incariol 02 October 2012 02:59:07PM 4 points [-]

We know there's such a thing as reality due to the reasons you mention, not truth - that's just a relation between reality and our beliefs.

"Arrangements of atoms" play a role in the idea that not all "syntactically correct" beliefs actually are meaningful and the last koan asks us to provide some rule to achieve this meaningfulness for all constructible beliefs (in an AI).

At least that's my understanding...