PhilGoetz comments on A simple counterexample to deBlanc 2007? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 30 May 2011 09:11:05PM 0 points [-]

Is that a reasonable calculation, or a Pascal's Mugging?

Is that an or, or an exclusive or?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 31 May 2011 07:59:58AM 0 points [-]

I take unreasonableness to be part of what it means, to judge something to be a Pascal's Mugging, but if you want to argue that it's both reasonable and a Pascal's Mugging, go right ahead.