army1987 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: [deleted] 02 October 2012 07:07:45PM 0 points [-]

what kind of issue EY is neglecting does this correspond to

Common knowledge, in general?

I was thinking more about stuff like, “but reality does also include my map, so a map of reality ought to include a map of itself” (which, as you mentioned, is related to my point about placebo-like effects).