Armok_GoB 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: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 11:11:25PM 6 points [-]

It does indeed seem possible that in the long run we'll end up with one kind of stuff, either from the reduction of logic to physics, or the reduction of physics to math. It's also worth noting that my present model does have magical-reality-fluid in it, and it's conceivable that this will end up not being reduced. But the actual argument is something along the lines of, "We got it down to two crisp things, and all the proposals for three don't have the crisp nature of the two."

Comment author: Armok_GoB 07 December 2012 05:26:04PM 1 point [-]

I only see one crisp thing and one thing borrowing some of the crispness of the first thing but mostly failing, in your model.