TheAncientGeek comments on Beyond Statistics 101 - Less Wrong

19 Post author: JonahSinick 26 June 2015 10:24AM

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 27 June 2015 01:21:05AM *  -1 points [-]

The applicable word is metaphysics.

Sorry avoiding metaphysics doesn't work. You just end up either reinventing them (badly) or using a bad 5th hand version of some old philospher's metaphysics. Incidentally, Eliezer also tried avoiding metaphysics and wound up doing the former.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 28 June 2015 09:28:47PM 2 points [-]

Its insufficiently appreciated that physicalism is metaphysics too.