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Awww, a Zebra
Aspiring_Vulcan220

I didn't know Eliezer had a girlfriend, how can you justify spending resources on that sort of thing?

Not an attack though, you probably have a good reason, I just can't figure out what it is.

Was this written in jest? It's hilarious.

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Aspiring_Vulcan50

Actually I don't know how to pronounce Eliezer's name. How do you pronounce "Eliezer Yudkowsky"?

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Multiheaded150

This has puzzled me for a long time. Luckily, I live in Russia, and here we pronounce foreign words pretty much any way we want, often to the point of unrecoginzeability.

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No Logical Positivist I
Aspiring_Vulcan20

Is the following assertion meaningless -- "There exists a invisible dragon in my garage, which can't be seen, felt, or sensed by any methods known to man today, or in the future".

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0TobyBartels
Can it be sensed by beings other than humans with which humans might communicate? (Or does that already count as a method, however mediated by these alien beings, of sensing by humans?) If somebody made this assertion, then I would, as MugaSofer, probably follow up with how this person came to that belief. Somewhere along the way there is likely to be some sensation by that human, whether a past sighting that can't be repeated, communication with (what the believer takes to be) alien beings (space aliens, fairies, angels, etc), or even just a vague feeling that a dragon is there. We might get meaning out of it (and then it is very likely, unless interpreted in a figurative sense, to be very likely false).
0MugaSofer
No. It is, however, suspicious - what led you to hold such a conveniently untestable belief? What do you think you know, and how do you think you know it?
2DanielLC
If it's a conscious dragon, then it's definitely meaningful. The dragon will have proof of its own existence, which implies that there is an experiment capable of proving its existence.