wwa comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 109 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Gondolinian 23 February 2015 08:05PM

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Comment author: linkhyrule5 23 February 2015 09:57:24PM 7 points [-]

I immediately thought of Eliezer's metaphor of the brain as "the lens that perceives its own flaws", and reflective consistency.

Comment author: wwa 23 February 2015 10:29:27PM 0 points [-]

Perfect mathematical reflection, free of Gödel's incompleteness theorem.

Comment author: lfghjkl 24 February 2015 03:35:42AM 1 point [-]

That's not what reflective consistency means.