Nick_Beckstead comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Beckstead 29 October 2014 04:41:58PM 0 points [-]

What this shows is that people are inconsistent in a certain way. If you ask them the same question in two different ways (packed vs. unpacked) you get different answers. Is there any indication of which is the better way to ask the question, or whether asking it some other way is better still? Without an answer to this question, it's unclear to me whether we should talk about an "unpacking fallacy" or a "failure to unpack fallacy".