cousin_it comments on How not to move the goalposts - Less Wrong

4 Post author: HopeFox 12 June 2011 03:45PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 12 June 2011 10:19:59PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks! You could produce Perplexed's claimed outcome by fiat: use your magic detector to hire weasels so that they fit the desired distribution :-) Or you could set the threshold higher for red weasels and get the same result. Both options seem unsatisfactory...