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shminux comments on Explanations for Less Wrong articles that you didn't understand - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 31 March 2014 11:19AM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 April 2014 11:07:23AM 1 point [-]

What is that "naive view of truth"?

"Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white.

A map works by being in correspondence with the territory.

There is nothing magical about the correspondence. It is completely reducible to physics.

Do you not understand what Eliezer is saying, or are you just disagreeing with it?

Comment author: shminux 07 April 2014 05:40:48PM *  -1 points [-]

As said in another comment, if preventing tangential arguments about the nature of truth is the intended point of the essay, I can certainly get behind the intent, if not the execution.