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Eliezer, you’ve been going on concerning talking about things as if people considered them Aristotelian classes, but isn’t it also the case that people don’t think of things in a Bayesian sense? Shouldn’t it be enough simply to say that essentialism is a faulty way to look at the world?
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Eliezer, you’ve been going on concerning talking about things as if people considered them Aristotelian classes, but isn’t it also the case that people don’t think of things in a Bayesian sense? Shouldn’t it be enough simply to say that essentialism is a faulty way to look at the world?