Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on A Priori - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2007 09:02PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2007 10:24:43PM 2 points [-]

Greedy, all you're doing is specifying properties into the definition of what you mean by "entity" or "knows enough". I can always build a tape recorder that plays back "Two and two make five!" forever.

TGGP, fixed the tag. And remember, it's not about persuading an ideal philosophy student of perfect emptiness, it's about understanding why the engine works.