MrMind 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: MrMind 07 December 2012 05:18:42PM *  1 point [-]

So yeah, we need an argument for; "You're only supposed to have two kinds of stuff."

I think the whole point of "the great reductionist project" is that we don't really have a sufficiency theorem, so we should treat "no more than two" as an empirical hypothesis and proceed to discover its truth by the methods of science.