Blueberry comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong

236 Post author: Yvain 30 May 2010 09:16PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 June 2010 03:15:15PM 1 point [-]

the 'choices' you make are not really choices, but already predetermined

The only way that choices can be made is by being predetermined (by your decision-making algorithm). Paraphrasing the familiar wordplay, choices that are not predetermined refer to decisions that cannot be made, while the real choices, that can actually be made, are predetermined.

Comment author: Blueberry 12 June 2010 05:00:52PM 1 point [-]

I like this phrasing; it makes things very clear. Are you alluding to this quote, or something else?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 June 2010 05:33:00PM 0 points [-]

Yes.