Peterdjones comments on Separate morality from free will - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 07 July 2011 02:40:34PM 0 points [-]

I have been pointed at those pieces before. I read them originally and I have re-read them not long ago. Nothing in them changes my conviction (1) that it is dangerous to communication to use the term 'free will' in any sense other than freedom from causality,

Does that mean we should stop exonerating people who did bad things under duress? (iIOW, your stipulation about FW would change the way the word is used in law).

(3) using the phrase 'determinism' in any sense other that the ability to predict is dangerous to communication,

Does that mean we should stop saying that classical chaos is deterministic? (IOW, your stipulation about "deterministic" would change the way the word is used by physicists).