Perpetual motion, faster than light travel, etc. were falsified by scientific experimentation. This means that these hypotheses must have constrained anticipated experience. Maybe they are “meaningless” by some definition of the word (although not any with which I am familiar), but that is not the way Eliezer is using “meaningless”.
Perpetual motion, faster than light travel, etc. were falsified by scientific experimentation. This means that these hypotheses must have constrained anticipated experience. Maybe they are “meaningless” by some definition of the word (although not any with which I am familiar), but that is not the way Eliezer is using “meaningless”.
Eliezer uses meaningless on belief networks. I know that. I have read most of the sequences.
See this