PhilGoetz comments on Accuracy Versus Winning - Less Wrong

12 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 02 April 2009 04:47AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 04 April 2009 05:27:36AM 1 point [-]

"Scope sensitive"?

Comment author: ciphergoth 04 April 2009 01:41:36PM 2 points [-]

referring to "scope insensitivity".

I care a lot more about the boundary between eating kittens and not eating kittens than the number of kittens I eat, so the gain I'd need to eat two kittens is less than twice the gain I'd need to eat one kitten. Which indicates that I'm more concerned for myself than for the kittens...