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linkhyrule5 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 109 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gondolinian 23 February 2015 09:31:13PM *  3 points [-]

It is said, in certain legends that may or may not be fabrications, that this Mirror reflects itself perfectly and therefore its existence is absolutely stable.

I take it "reflect" here means some kind of self-modeling aside from just optical reflection?

Comment author: linkhyrule5 23 February 2015 09:57:24PM 7 points [-]

I immediately thought of Eliezer's metaphor of the brain as "the lens that perceives its own flaws", and reflective consistency.

Comment author: wwa 23 February 2015 10:29:27PM 0 points [-]

Perfect mathematical reflection, free of Gödel's incompleteness theorem.

Comment author: lfghjkl 24 February 2015 03:35:42AM 1 point [-]

That's not what reflective consistency means.

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