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Pentashagon comments on We won't be able to recognise the human Gödel sentence - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 05 October 2012 02:46PM

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Comment author: Pentashagon 08 October 2012 07:31:32PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't that allow for Stuart Armstrong to have a false belief?

"Stuart Armstrong cannot justify a belief in this sentence" might be a stronger form since it implicitly refers to any logical or rational reasoning that might be used to justify the belief.

There are some obvious weaknesses to human Godel sentences. Stuart Armstrong is not a permanent name. Additionally our biology changes over time so we probably can't have permanent personal Godel sentences.