dlthomas comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 16 December 2011 10:12:45PM 0 points [-]

That's not quite what I meant by "explain" - I had understood that to be your position, and was trying to get insight into your reasoning.

Drawing an analogy to mathematics, would you say that this is an axiom, or a theorem?

If an axiom, it clearly must be produced by a schema of some sort (as you clearly don't have 3^^^3 incompressible rules in your head). Can you explore somewhat the nature of that schema?

If a theorem, what sort of axioms, and how arranged, produce it?