James_Miller comments on Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs's hypocritical stance towards death - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Synaptic 08 October 2011 03:32AM

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Comment author: James_Miller 08 October 2011 06:21:27PM *  0 points [-]

You are defining imply such that X implies Y means that if X happens Y always occurs, whereas I'm defining imply to mean that if X happens Y is more likely to occur than if X didn't happen. In this context my interpretation is better since yours renders MartinB's statement trivially true and therefore vacuous.

Edit: I misinterpreted Oscar's comment.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 08 October 2011 06:32:37PM 1 point [-]

That's exactly what I intended to mean (my comment wasn't intended to support MartinB over you).