thomblake comments on Counterfactual Mugging v. Subjective Probability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 20 July 2009 10:47:05PM *  0 points [-]

True, but note as a caveat the problems many ethicists have in recent years brought up involving thought experiments.

For example, if our concepts are fuzzy, we should expect our rules about the concepts to output fuzzy answers. Testing boundary cases might in that case not be helpful, as the distinctions between concepts might fall apart.

Comment author: Alicorn 20 July 2009 10:48:04PM 0 points [-]

Of course. Like most things, it's not unanimously agreed upon.