The thing that Yudkowsky calls reductionism , is actually parsimony.
Parsimony requires that you don’t have unnecessary structure in your models … but you can err in the other direction as well: a model can be too simple to represent the territory.
To get things just right , you need to know just what the territory is … which you often dont.
You don’t in this case. To say that modal logic has no possible application to reality is to say reality is single-universe deterministic. Which is of course, not known to be the case
Yes.
The thing that Yudkowsky calls reductionism , is actually parsimony.
Parsimony requires that you don’t have unnecessary structure in your models … but you can err in the other direction as well: a model can be too simple to represent the territory.
To get things just right , you need to know just what the territory is … which you often dont.
You don’t in this case. To say that modal logic has no possible application to reality is to say reality is single-universe deterministic. Which is of course, not known to be the case
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