wedrifid 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: wedrifid 03 October 2012 02:53:37PM *  0 points [-]

I think this is gracefully resolved by adding the conditional that the object must have come into shape by causal intervention of a human mind which predicted creation of this physical form.

It has to be resolved one way or the other. They are both coherent questions, they just shouldn't be confused.

Comment author: DaFranker 03 October 2012 03:03:35PM 1 point [-]

True. I hadn't interpreted that as the point you were making, but in retrospect your comment makes sense if you had already thought of this.