staticIP comments on A possible solution to pascals mugging. - Less Wrong

-19 Post author: staticIP 13 October 2012 12:00AM

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Comment author: staticIP 13 October 2012 12:35:00PM -1 points [-]

I understand that a lot of issues are solved, like the existence of god and so on, but I for one still haven't gotten an appropriate explanation as to why my claim, which seems perfectly valid to me, is incorrect. That proposal is going to further hinder this kind of discussion and debate.

And as far as I can tell, I'm correct. It's honestly very concerning to me that a bunch of lesswrongers have failed to follow this line of reasoning to its natural conclusion. Maybe I'm just not using the correct community-specific shibboleths, but the only one who's actually followed through on the logic is gwern. I look forward to seeing his counter reply to this.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 14 October 2012 02:26:04AM 0 points [-]

I think you're getting at an important problem, and have taken a step toward the solution.

How do we deal with choice in the face of fundamentally arbitrary assertions?

One way, at least, is to see if there is another equivalently arbitrary assertion that would lead you to make the opposite choice.