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That Alien Message — LessWrong
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“see this one, with his defensive footnote up top: www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTp... check this one: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKN... is there anything in this corpus that indicates a belief that natural language and significant progress on values comes WEL…”
“basically you just need the Very Basic information theory 101: no Markov process (approximately everything is a Markov process) can add mutual information with its input through local operations. rationalists do not think that this is exactly false, just tr…”
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Grace: Which is an annoying thing to do, but that’s also another critique
Grace: You can argue that rationalist‘s don‘t *practice* empiricism, but that’s a different critique. It’s hard to imagine a clearer endorsement than putting it as one of your “12 Virtues of Rationality”
Grace: This just isn’t true at all: “The sixth virtue is empiricism. The roots of knowledge are in observation and its fruit is prediction. What tree grows without roots?”
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