dlthomas comments on So You Want to Save the World - Less Wrong

41 Post author: lukeprog 01 January 2012 07:39AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 January 2012 09:32:19PM 0 points [-]

are you saying that if you believe X, there can't possibly exist any information that you haven't discovered yet that could convince your belief is false?

No. I'm saying that if I value X, I can't think of any information that would cause me to value NOT(X) instead.

Can you give me an example of something you desire not to do, which you would willingly edit yourself to desire to do?

Comment author: dlthomas 06 January 2012 11:38:18PM 0 points [-]

If you have lexicographic preferences, and prefer W to X, and you learn that NOT(X) and W are equivalent?