The truth of the matter is that all comparisons are superficial. We might just as easily say that they’re all deep—it makes no difference.
Our sensory apparati produce streams of data that our nervous system finds patterns in, and then it finds correlations between the patterns. That is how we attempt to represent the world, and by determining how our model produces new states, we attempt to anticipate how the world will act.
At no point do we go beyond making comparisons based on some limited number of similarities. That is ALL we ever do. Eliezer has stated that he learned to be wary of using one word to refer to different things, then concluding that they are the same—when has he learned to be wary of calling one thing by different names, then concluding that they are different?
The truth of the matter is that all comparisons are superficial. We might just as easily say that they’re all deep—it makes no difference.
Our sensory apparati produce streams of data that our nervous system finds patterns in, and then it finds correlations between the patterns. That is how we attempt to represent the world, and by determining how our model produces new states, we attempt to anticipate how the world will act.
At no point do we go beyond making comparisons based on some limited number of similarities. That is ALL we ever do. Eliezer has stated that he learned to be wary of using one word to refer to different things, then concluding that they are the same—when has he learned to be wary of calling one thing by different names, then concluding that they are different?