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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 December 2006 03:44:58AM 1 point [-]

Okay, so what are Robin and Hal advocating, procedurally speaking? Let's hear it from them. I defined the Modesty Argument because I had to say what I thought I was arguing against, but, as said, I'm not an advocate and therefore I'm not the first person to ask. Where do *you* think Inwagen went wrong in disagreeing with Lewis - what choice did he make that he should not have made? What should he have done instead? The procedure I laid out looks to me like the obvious one - it's the one I'd follow with a perceived equal. It's in applying the Modest procedure to disputes about rationality or meta-rationality that I'm likely to start wondering if the other guy is in the same reference class. But if I've invented a strawman, I'm willing to hear about it - just tell me the non-strawman version.