nyan_sandwich comments on Math is Subjunctively Objective - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 July 2008 11:06AM

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Comment author: DaFranker 11 September 2012 07:10:49PM *  2 points [-]

Odd, EY never seemed to me as particularly opposed or holding views going against / away from instrumentalism, when I was reading the sequences.

I'm curious to see where that comment comes from.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 September 2012 04:07:32AM 0 points [-]

He explicitly identifies as a realist somewhere. Saying things along the lines of "once you have all these theories describing things, why postulate the additional fact that they don't exist?" (that's not an exact quote)