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Well, there are many people who you’d say “I guess he’s bald-*ish*” or “somewhat bald” or something. There’s a “gray area.” This is not a matter of incomplete knowledge; you could inspect him as closely as you like and it wouldn’t make a difference. It’s in the world, not map.
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Would you go the other extreme to Donald Hoffman’s position that ontology is entirely a matter of perceptual adaptive fit and that entities only exist in relation to fitness to survival purposes? Ie reality is one big nebulous blob that we carve up in ways that help us survive?
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Mmm, yeah, this is again not the sort of project I’m attempting. I’m not trying to prove anything or do science or philosophy. I’m pointing out common-sense features of everyday life and their overlooked implications for everyday life.
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Sounds like the reason you have conflicts with rationalists and strong AGIers is that they believe “everyday life” can be unrecognizably transformed in ways you believe are impossible because it would mean eliminating nebulosity, which you believe is irreducible. Right?
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