David_Gerard comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2012 10:12PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 21 October 2012 08:48:54AM 0 points [-]

How does "effectively epiphenomenal" affect these considerations? e.g. the Andromeda Galaxy may affect me, but my effect on the Andromeda Galaxy is the sort of thing we tag "epsilon".

Comment author: Pentashagon 23 October 2012 12:18:14AM 4 points [-]

but my effect on the Andromeda Galaxy is the sort of thing we tag "epsilon"

For now.