From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 18:49:33 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> This is not a belief. It is a definition.
> Reality means the fact, state, or quality of being real or genuine. 2. That
> which is real; an actual thing, situation, or event. 3. The sum or totality of
> real things. 4. That which exists, as contrasted with what is fictitious or
> merely conceived of.
Nothing is true by definition. Even so, it's very hard to imagine any
conceivable set of truths that would cause someone to say "There exist three
different realities" without being met with the response: "Well, then, the
reality is that there are three different realities."
Irrelevant, anyhow, since the basic point is that having a plurality of
mutually exclusive opinions, and an early-21st-century Western social
convention about pretending to respect all of them, does not change the fact
that at most one opinion can be correct.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/home.html
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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