Kawoomba comments on Rationality Quotes May 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 31 May 2014 02:40:50PM *  2 points [-]

The question is whether to interpret such a falling apart of a definition (which I take to mean that related decision problems cannot be clearly answered anymore) as an inherent or even necessary attribute of concepts which 'live' at a macroscale, or as a weakness of said definition, as a sign that we're mistaking a fuzzy word cloud for a precisely defined set.