It was definitely worth skimming through. Two... well, not really questions, but thoughts:
How does trivialism differ from assuming the existence of a Tegmark IV universe?
A spectral argument given in defense of trivialism in the dissertation runs like this:
a. Natural language is inconsistent.
b. Therefore, by explosion, every sentence in natural language is true.
c. Every classical proposition may be interpreted in natural language.
d. Therefore, classical logic is inconsistent.
The error in the argument is actually quite subtle!
How does trivialism differ from assuming the existence of a Tegmark IV universe?
Because even if we assume the existence of every mathematical structure, we are still assuming that they are coherent. Mind you, there are consistent models of some paraconsistent logic (even in set theory), but there is no model of the theory of all sentences. This is pretty standar model theory: the class of models of the total theory is empty (viceversa: the theory of the class of all models is empty).
Anyway, assuming trivialism is uninteresting (as the name correctly imply ;)): we still can play a formal game that mimics the difference between truth and falsity.
Straight from Wikipedia.
I just had to stare at this a while. We can have papers published about this, we really ought to be able to get papers published about Friendly AI subproblems.
My favorite part is at the very end.
Trivialism is the theory that every proposition is true. A consequence of trivialism is that all statements, including all contradictions of the form "p and not p" (that something both 'is' and 'isn't' at the same time), are true.[1]
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