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strogonoff 19 hours ago

I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to make.

> Sounds about right, until the reality check. How often do you raise the problem of the incommunicability of qualia outside hacker news?

This is HN, and I was replying to a specific thought experiment posted in a comment:

> you can be objectively right about the color of the sky, but that won't save you from becoming dinner to wild animals after your people cast you out for believing differently.

That’s it.

You trying to bring into this people not complaining about it is, again, irrelevant. Most people, unless they are into philosophy, don’t tend complain about the inability to read someone else’s mind or feel what someone else’s feel. People also don’t tend to complain about the inevitability of death, the inability to go back in time, and in fact pretty much any fact of life that they cannot change. Yet, indeed, people absolutely do bring these up on regular basis in relevant philosophy-adjacent discussions and thought experiments, such as when correcting a claim that verbal labels assigned to feelings can be “objectively correct”.

balamatom 18 hours ago | parent [-]

>People also don’t tend to complain about the inevitability of death, the inability to go back in time, and in fact pretty much any fact of life that they cannot change.

News to me. The rest is irrelevant.