shminux comments on How would not having free will feel to you? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 20 June 2013 11:43:30PM 1 point [-]

I only care about answerable questions, and the first one isn't without first defining free will. The second one is about subjective experiences, and so is perfectly answerable.

Comment author: gjm 20 June 2013 11:51:11PM 3 points [-]

Understood and (on the whole) agreed. But I think the question, as phrased, is liable to suggest the first at least as much as the second.

Comment author: Error 21 June 2013 11:39:22AM *  0 points [-]

Datapoint: I first interpreted it as #1, as gjm suggests.

(And I failed to notice my confusion when the example answers didn't seem to match up well with the question. That irritates me.)