taw comments on Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

24 Post author: SilasBarta 30 August 2010 09:37PM

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Comment author: taw 02 September 2010 05:10:51PM 0 points [-]

My point isn't about IP, it's about how easy it is to twist this way of reasoning with story and analogy in any direction you want by choosing a different analogy.

If your original post was anti-IP, I'd just twist it into pro-IP case. Or if you used aynrandist story about "self-ownership" + analogy to capitalism, I'd use a different analogy that makes it strongly oppose capitalism. Or whatever.

As long as there's "let's pick arbitrary analogy" step anywhere in your reasoning system, it's all infinitely twistable.

The part about Coase theorem was about how your analogy choice was highly unusual. Not that using a more obvious one would entirely avoid the problem.

Comment author: SilasBarta 02 September 2010 05:17:31PM 1 point [-]

Where does the article that is on this site make this flaw in reasoning?