shminux comments on Litany of Instrumentarski - Less Wrong

1 Post author: shminux 09 April 2013 03:07PM

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Comment author: shminux 09 April 2013 04:51:15PM *  2 points [-]

I don't believe we are talking about the same thing. I wasn't talking about utility, I was talking about testability. My operational definition of truth is the accuracy of predictions. Except for the "mathematical truths", which are well formed finite strings of symbols.