BlazeOrangeDeer comments on Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms - LessWrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 October 2012 09:59AM

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Comment author: BlazeOrangeDeer 07 October 2012 07:55:00AM 1 point [-]

It's something that everybody has quick access to. Another version would be "things fall", which is better but also only works on a planet and with objects denser than air for example. It would be ideal to have some unchanging reference object that we can make statements about, instead we have something that everyone has seen and they can say "I have seen that, it was pretty much blue"

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 October 2012 06:04:23PM 3 points [-]

That it's hard to come up with an "obviously true fact" that is in fact true without qualifications is itself interesting.