Vaniver comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong
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That... sounds like success to me. Did you want him to redefine it so the problem stuck around?
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.