TimS comments on [LINK] Law Goes Meta - Less Wrong

3 Post author: TimS 28 September 2012 07:11PM

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Comment author: TimS 28 September 2012 09:58:26PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure I agree. Many legal doctrines, especially procedural doctrines (like jurisdiction), are justified based on knock-on effects. But that is different than recursive analysis.

Or, to use LW terminology, meta != decision-theoretic reasoning.

Comment author: komponisto 28 September 2012 10:22:46PM 2 points [-]

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. I was simply making the point that many people don't understand the difference between procedural issues and substantive ones.

Comment author: TimS 29 September 2012 04:22:44AM 1 point [-]

Fair enough. I'm just allergic to invocations of "meta" to explain complicated things.

Which is incredibly ironic, given my original post. :)