thomblake 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: thomblake 03 October 2012 05:27:22PM 2 points [-]

The charitable interpretation is that shminux always implies in his points something similar to Eliezer's notions that you can't just step outside of your own perceptions to see the territory directly, but do have some mechanisms already in place that receive "new" information from somewhere which you have no control over, which is what (AFAICT) shminux calls "reality".

That's a little too charitable though, since that's effectively the view shminux is arguing against.

Comment author: DaFranker 03 October 2012 05:37:45PM 0 points [-]

That's a good point, if your assessment of what shminux argues against is better than mine. It probably is, since I can't yet make useful predictions on this.