iDante comments on Open thread, September 2-8, 2013 - Less Wrong

0 Post author: David_Gerard 02 September 2013 02:07PM

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Comment author: iDante 02 September 2013 06:31:49PM *  3 points [-]

I learned about Egan's Law, and I'm pretty sure it's a less-precise restatement of the correspondence principle. Anyone have any thoughts on that similarity?

Comment author: gwern 02 September 2013 06:38:04PM 6 points [-]

The term is also used more generally, to represent the idea that a new theory should reproduce the results of older well-established theories in those domains where the old theories work.

Sounds good to me, although that's not what I would have guessed from a name like 'correspondence principle'.

Comment author: shminux 02 September 2013 08:54:58PM 2 points [-]

I suppose some minor difference is that this "law" is also applicable to meta-ethics, not just to physics. It's probably worth adding a link to the standard terminology to the LW wiki page.