Vaniver 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: Vaniver 11 December 2012 01:36:55AM -1 points [-]

You've just redefined "expect" so that the problem goes away.

That... sounds like success to me. Did you want him to redefine it so the problem stuck around?

Comment author: bryjnar 11 December 2012 03:03:04AM 1 point [-]

It sounds like solving a different problem. Like I said, it's fine to claim that we should use a different notion than the one that we do, but changing it by fiat and then claiming there's no problem is not doing that.