TheOtherDave comments on Hedonium's semantic problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 April 2015 03:10:41AM 1 point [-]

(nods) Yes, agreed with all of this.

And it is admittedly kind of funny that I can say "Superman is from Krypton, not from Vulcan!" and be understood as talking about a fictional character in a body of myth, but if I say "Superman really exists" nobody understands me the same way (though in the Superman mythos, Superman both really exists and is from Krypton). A parsing model that got that quirk right without special-case handling would really be on to something.