VoiceOfRa comments on Deliberate Grad School - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 07 November 2015 04:31:28AM 4 points [-]

In which case we're back to the question of why numbers are the same for everyone? You said:

Two correct maps of the same territory, designed to highlight the same regularities and obscure the same sources of noise, will be either completely the same or, in the noisy case, will approximate each-other.

Except you claim there's no same territory. The aliens in the Andromeda galaxy will have the same numbers as us, as will the sentient truing machines that evolved in a cellular automata. So what common territory are they all looking at?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 07 November 2015 10:47:39AM 3 points [-]

The physical world: see here.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 07 November 2015 04:55:48PM 5 points [-]

How about you try reading the comment your responding to next time. It's even extremely short so you don't have much of an excuse.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 08 November 2015 12:04:42PM 2 points [-]

Instead of assuming that I didn't, you could also have assumed that I just misunderstood it.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 09 November 2015 03:15:35AM 5 points [-]

So read it again to correct your misunderstanding and then write a response that actually addresses the issues. If you're just going to ignore my arguments rather than respond to them, I don't see the point in continuing this conversation.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 November 2015 02:34:55PM 2 points [-]

Your previous comment already made me uninterested in continuing the conversation.