Dr_Manhattan comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2012 02:11AM

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Comment author: potato 13 October 2012 07:10:30PM 3 points [-]

It seems to me that this is the primary thing that we should be working on. If probability is subjective, and causality reduces to probability, then isn't causality subjective, i.e., a function of background knowledge?

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 14 October 2012 01:57:05PM *  -1 points [-]

isn't causality subjective, i.e., a function of background knowledge

This seems not in the least contentious, if you're talking about the map of causality.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 14 October 2012 06:05:40PM 2 points [-]

The question is whether causality exists in the territory at all.