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4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2012 05:09AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 October 2012 07:09:34PM *  1 point [-]

Trivialism is a particularly simple rule: "mark all true."

This is one form of trivialism; the dissertation also uses it to mean something like "whatever marking you place on the list, every item is marked true (but also possibly marked something else)."