Jonathan_Graehl comments on Torture vs. Dust vs. the Presumptuous Philosopher: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 04 September 2009 08:06:18AM 1 point [-]

Re: 1 and 2, if you've got subjectively strong (but actually harmful) intuitions in one area, then the link allows contagion. Intuitions should be used to generate experiments, not structures.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 04 September 2009 08:22:29AM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure how intuitions about morality and epistemology can be used to generate experiments. Do you have any suggestions or examples?

But anyway, perhaps I should have used the word "belief" rather than "intuition".