Peterdjones comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: TsviBT 05 December 2012 09:41:20AM *  16 points [-]

Not to be obnoxious, but...

You're only supposed to have two kinds of stuff.

Why two?

ETA: I feel like I may have distracted from the thrust of the post. I think the main point was that there really really probably shouldn't be more then two stuffs, which is legit.

Comment author: Peterdjones 05 December 2012 04:16:06PM 3 points [-]

How does EY know there are only two? Is it aprori knowledge? Is it empirical? Is it subject to falsification? How many failed reduictions-to-two-kinds-of-stuff do there have to be before TKoS is falsified?