arundelo comments on Evidential Decision Theory, Selection Bias, and Reference Classes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 08 July 2013 01:08:24PM 3 points [-]

Other alternatives to the Smoking Lesion Problem:

Eliezer has one with chewing gum and throat abcesses (PDF). "I have avoided [the Smoking Lesion] variant because in real life, smoking does cause lung cancer."

(According to that same document this class of problem is known as Solomon's Problem.)

orthonormal proposes the Aspirin Paradox.