gwern comments on On Charities and Linear Utility - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Anatoly_Vorobey 04 February 2011 02:13PM

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Comment author: gwern 06 February 2011 07:11:16PM *  -1 points [-]

Accepting the logical validity of an argument, and flatly denying its soundness, is not an interesting or worthwhile or even good contribution.

Comment author: timtyler 06 February 2011 07:14:34PM *  0 points [-]

What? Where are you suggesting that someone is doing that?

If you are talking about me and your logical argument, that is just not what was being discussed.

The correctness of the axiom concerning charity quality was what was in dispute from the beginning - not any associated logical reasoning.