Given this definition of connected, I believe “Everything is connected to everything else” is true.
Can you think of a counter-example?
Edit: Wow, downvotes? I wouldn’t have expected that on this site. My point relates to the absence of “floating” ideas in reality. Everything really should be connected, because everything comes from reality. If a thing wasn’t based on reality in some way, where could it come from? I thought this line of reasoning would be obvious though. My other point, however, is that Eliezer’s blog posts often seem to grossly misinterpret things people say and mean, for example his definition of “connected” above.
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Given this definition of connected, I believe “Everything is connected to everything else” is true.
Can you think of a counter-example?
Edit: Wow, downvotes? I wouldn’t have expected that on this site. My point relates to the absence of “floating” ideas in reality. Everything really should be connected, because everything comes from reality. If a thing wasn’t based on reality in some way, where could it come from? I thought this line of reasoning would be obvious though. My other point, however, is that Eliezer’s blog posts often seem to grossly misinterpret things people say and mean, for example his definition of “connected” above.