Eliezer—that’s all well and good, but what in the world do you think determines which computation or ‘abstract idealized dynamic’ a mortal human is actually referring to? Won’t this be radically underdetermined?
You suggest that “Bob and Sally could be talking about different things when they talk about Enamuh”. What’s the difference between a world where they’re talking about different things vs. a world where they are talking about the same thing but one of them is ‘miscalculating’? What facts (about their dispositions and such) would determine which of the two explanations holds, on your view?
Eliezer—that’s all well and good, but what in the world do you think determines which computation or ‘abstract idealized dynamic’ a mortal human is actually referring to? Won’t this be radically underdetermined?
You suggest that “Bob and Sally could be talking about different things when they talk about Enamuh”. What’s the difference between a world where they’re talking about different things vs. a world where they are talking about the same thing but one of them is ‘miscalculating’? What facts (about their dispositions and such) would determine which of the two explanations holds, on your view?