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

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Comment author: michael_vassar3 09 October 2007 02:57:32PM 1 point [-]

Eliezer: It sure does seem to me that when you say that "a mind needs a certain amount of dynamic structure to be an argument acceptor" you are saying that it does in fact know certain things prior to any "learning" taking place, e.g. that there are "priors". I would argue that 2+2=4 is part of this set, but as the punchline argues, we have already established the basics, now we are just haggling.