Stuart_Armstrong comments on Hedonium's semantic problem - LessWrong

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 April 2015 11:50AM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 April 2015 01:46:48PM 2 points [-]

Are you saying that you and Harry Potter are equally fictional?

Certainly not. I'm saying it's useful for people to have symbols labelled "Stuart Armstrong" and "Harry Potter" (with very different properties - fictional being one), without needing either symbol defined in terms of quantum mechanics.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 April 2015 06:25:02PM -1 points [-]

Something defined in terms of quantum mechanics can still fail to correspond....you're still on the mail and therefore talking about issues orthogonal to grounding.