Vladimir_Nesov comments on Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 February 2011 01:54:47PM *  0 points [-]

Omega changes the test sheet in all possible worlds where the calculator shows "odd". (A "counterfactual" is an event, not a particular possible world, which is more natural since you name counterfactuals by specifying high-level properties, which is not sufficient to select only one possible world, if that notion even makes sense.) Clarified in the post.