shminux 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: Armok_GoB 05 December 2012 06:57:45PM 1 point [-]

That all math is "real" in some sense you observe directly any time you do any. The insight is not that math is MORE real than previously thought, but just that there isn't some additional find of realness. Sort of, this is an oversimplification.

Also check out: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1zt/the_mathematical_universe_the_map_that_is_the/

Comment author: shminux 05 December 2012 07:38:36PM 2 points [-]

Also check out: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1zt/the_mathematical_universe_the_map_that_is_the/

That post is a confused jumble of multiple misinterpretations of the word "exist".