We’re just about to enter the “words” sequence and Eliezer wants to remind us that words carry no information unless we know why they were written.
Restatement: The meaning of words is entirely mediated by their entanglement with reality; beware of drawing new inferences about reality from arguments about words alone.
Restatement: The meaning of words is entirely mediated by their entanglement with reality; beware of drawing new inferences about reality from arguments about words alone.