Technologos comments on Counterfactual Mugging and Logical Uncertainty - Less Wrong
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My understanding of the point of the post was that while a coin may physically land differently and thus instantiate the counterfactual, it is merely my current lack of knowledge (the "logical uncertainty" in the post title) that allows me to simulate a kind of pseudo-counterfactual in this case.
Since I do not know the millionth digit of pi, I can still speak meaningfully of the cases where it is and isn't odd.