From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 04:50:31 MDT
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> And you would have been *wrong*. Yes, beliefs have complex causal
That's not the point. You wouldn't know you were wrong. The answer to the
question would have been honest and self-consistent within your belief
frame of reference. The symbol "Sun" would have tweaked entirely different
representation systems. He would disagree with what you claim "Sun" is.
Similiar holds for the future. If you're a superbeing who understands
stellar physics at reflex level the symbol
0xf27d187af24de02a66a2198abf1b35486cd9ff22 is associated with a vastly
more refined model of reality than "Sun".
> histories. But beliefs which correspond to reality remain true, and
> beliefs which depart from reality remain false.
That assumes you can always tell what is closer to reality, and what it
isn't. Even in science, it can be damn difficult. Outside of science, it
pays more to be in synch with the current consensus models.
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