Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization — LessWrong
Eliezer describes the similarity between understanding what a locally valid proof step is in mathematics, knowing there are bad arguments for true co…
x Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2018 Epistemology Decoupling vs Contextualizing Public Discourse Common Knowledge Gears-Level Rationality Curated 252 Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization by Eliezer Yudkowsky 7th Apr 2018 15 min read 70 252 (Cross-posted from Facebook .) 0. Tl;dr: There's a similarity between these three concepts: A locally valid proof step in mathematics is one that, in general, produces only true statements from true statements. This is a property of a single step, irrespective of whether the final conclusion is
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