b1shop comments on Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 31 January 2011 04:28PM

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Comment author: b1shop 01 February 2011 01:09:03AM 1 point [-]

This is how I interpreted it as well. I'm assuming something else is going on with the "updateless" part, but I don't know what it is.

Comment author: wedrifid 01 February 2011 06:29:05AM 0 points [-]

This is how I interpreted it as well. I'm assuming something else is going on with the "updateless" part, but I don't know what it is.

I took that as somewhat of a red herring. No 'updateless' reasoning seems to be required - just careful thinking.