thomblake comments on Schelling fences on slippery slopes - Less Wrong

179 Post author: Yvain 16 March 2012 11:44PM

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Comment author: thomblake 28 March 2012 02:48:33PM 23 points [-]

So his first decision is acausally linked to the whole of the slope, and to decide to take one step is to decide to go all the way.

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No no no. His first decision is causally linked to the whole of the slope. If you draw out the DAG of causation, there's an arrow going right from "became 95% Gandhi" to "became 90% Gandhi", and an arrow going from "became 90% Gandhi" to "became 85% Gandhi", and so on (with some intermediate nodes depending on resolution).

Comment author: RichardKennaway 28 March 2012 08:40:11PM 7 points [-]

You are correct.

Comment author: faul_sname 20 April 2012 08:01:18PM 6 points [-]

I get the impression that "acausal" is an applause light here.

Comment author: dlthomas 20 April 2012 08:20:37PM 0 points [-]

Or possibly a typo.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 March 2013 12:19:31AM 3 points [-]

I doubt that, given that he also said TDT instead of CDT, etc.