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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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In that case, since the boundaries among those 3 things are themselves nebulous, I think you need an argument as to why culture exists as an independent nebulous phenomenological domain at all, distinct from language-as-social-biological-instinct.
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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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I don’t think so… and the rationalism part and the AGI part are (I think?) entirely separate. I don’t have a strong opinion about AGI. All I can say is currently it doesn’t look like we have any clue about how to make it. That suggests it won’t happen very soon, but only weakly
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