#epistemology #rationality # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Using stop words #to-digest >Jonathan Wallace suggested that "God!" functions as a semantic stopsign-that it isn't a propositional assertion, so much as a cognitive traffic signal: do not think past this point. Saying" "God!" doesn't so much resolve the paradox, as put up a cognitive traffic signal to halt the obvious continuation of the question-and-answer chain. Of course you'd never do that, being a good and proper atheist, right? But "God!" isn't the only semantic stopsign, just the obvious first example. ~ [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] In [[GPT3]] and such [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] models, you can use stop words to tell the AI to stop predicting the future when it predict one of these words. Does it make sense to make the analogy with human [[Decision theory]]? Can using specific stop words in our thinking process allow us more rational thoughts? # External links