ArisKatsaris 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: ArisKatsaris 15 December 2012 05:56:50PM *  1 point [-]

beliefs are made of maths and can't refer to things that are not maths.

...to me that sounds like saying "words are made of letters and can't refer to things that are not letters, therefore e.g. trees and clouds must be made of letters." It sounds like a map-territory confusion of insane degree.

The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis may be true, but this argument doesn't really work for me.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 16 December 2012 01:42:17AM 0 points [-]

Correct, I've edited my post to clarify.